Victory for Luca Scassa at Misano at the weekend on his factory-supported Team UnionBike Gimotorsports MV Augusta F4 puts the Italian motorcycle maker in the lead of the Italian Superbike Championship with one round remaining.

The other riders on the starting grid on Sunday saw Luca Scassa start from pole position and only caught-up with him on the podium, the rider from Arezzo (Tuscany) leaving nothing to his opponents, not even the fastest lap. The MV Agusta F4 run by Team UnionBike Gimotorsports and directly supported by the engineers of the Varese (Italy) based factory, was the bike to beat throughout the weekend demonstrated its competitiveness against world-class motorcycles such as Claudio Corti’s Yamaha and Ayrton Badovini’s Kawasaki.

Luca and his F4 1000 R 312 were perfect, had a great start and gained precious time on Ayrton Badovini’s factory-backed Kawasaki run by Team PSG-1, while his main rival in the championship Claudio Corti retired due to mechanical problems. Third step of the podium went to the winner of the last two rounds Norino Brignola, always a threat in the final stages of the race. This time however, the backmarkers didn’t cause any problems and Scassa had plenty of time to look back and wheely across the line.

With this victory Scassa gained the lead in the championship with one round remaining. He now has 8 points on his closest rival Brignola and nine on Corti. Maurizio Prattichizzo also had a good race on his Team Factory SBK F4. Following difficult qualifying and practice sessions the rider from Milan managed to find a great race pace that allowed him to finish seventh overall.

Following an excellent qualifying session in STK, Illario Dionisi was expected to get a great result but a bad start compromised his race. The young rider from Rome came back to grasp a 12th place finish. The last round of the CIV – Italian Superbike Championship will be held at Mugello on the 19th of October.

ITALIAN SBK (MISANO) FINAL RESULTS:

1. L. Scassa (MV Agusta) 21’33.988; 2. A. Badovini (Kawasaki) a 5’’943; 3. N. Brignola (Honda) 10’’600; 4. T. Bridwell (Suzuki) 12’’528; 5. L. Conforti (Honda) 12’’530; 6. R. Chiarello (Suzuki) 20’’131; 7. M. Prattichizzo (MV Agusta) 21’’561

ITALIAN SBK OVERALL STANDINGS:

1. L. Scassa 85; 2. N. Brignola 77; 3. C. Corti 76; 4. L. Conforti 71; 5. L. Mauri 53; 6 M. Prattichizzo 46