June 21st:

West takes seventh in Misano

The Misano round is normally one of the hottest events on the World Supersport calendar, but this year it was the rain that dominated the eighth round of the Championship.

The tricky wet conditions caused a lack of grip at the track, resulting in a series of crashes in the warm up session. Despite his crash in the third minute, West managed to master the tricky circumstances at the 4.226km Misano track and held a spot in the top of the time sheets for the duration of the wet session.

While qualifying and warm-up were undertaken in the wet, the conditions changed once again in the afternoon and the 22-lap Supersport race got underway on a dry track. Just six laps in, the race had to be red flagged following a couple of crashes that left an oil spill at the track. At the drop of the red flag, West found himself in sixth position, followed by Gianluca Vizziello in thirteen.

West took a seventh position at the final flag in the aggregated Misano Supersport race - in which no less than 13 riders retired. The Australian took six valuable championship points home and moves up to a fifth place in the standings, while teammate Gianluca Vizziello - currently 18th in the standings - equalled his best performance for the team to date, and finished eleventh in today's race.

Anthony West, 7th:

"It has been a strange weekend for me. I crashed twice trying to do the best I can with the bike. I am not happy with the race results. I did the best I could with the package I had this weekend, but it just wasn't good enough. I need to be at the front. We have made some small improvements over the last race, but still have a lot of work to do. I hope we can improve the bike for Donington and set some better results there."

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