Jonathan Rea finished on the podium for the second time in three races on Sunday afternoon, finishing as runner-up in the second of the days two seventh-round World Superbike championship races at Imola in Italy.Second place for the 26-year-old Pata Honda rider from Northern Ireland made up for the disappointment of crashing out of todays 21-lap opener, which was won, like race two, by British rider Tom Sykes.Rea had got the perfect start to race one, taking the holeshot before running wide at the second chicane of the 4.936km Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari. He rejoined the race in eleventh place and had battled his way up to challenge for third before crashing out unhurt with two laps remaining.His Pata Honda team-mate, Leon Haslam, took two top ten finishes today, completing his first race since breaking his leg badly at Assen in mid-April. The 30-year-old was tenth in race one and followed it up with ninth place in the second outing, battling right to the end of 21 very tough laps.Jonathan ReaDNF and 2ndReally mixed emotions today. We had really good pace all weekend, but not enough for Tom [Sykes] today, who seemed like he had something in reserve, especially when it got hot this afternoon. I pulled a big holey in race one and thought Im gone here, but I had a big vibration the whole race on the brake disc, so I couldnt push the front like I wanted. I made a mistake on the first lap, but made a lot of ground up and then unfortunately crashed when I was pushing for the podium with a couple of laps to go. In race two I just rode my ass off and made zero mistakes. In the first five laps I couldnt go with the two guys ahead, so they gapped me and by half distance, Tom had eked out a lead tenth by tenth. I need to work with my crew to make the bike better with a full fuel load and fresh tyres. But its clear that weve addressed some of the problems weve had when the tyres drop. We can leave Imola with ou r heads held high because weve addressed some of the issues we had earlier in the season and we look forward now to Moscow.Leon Haslam10th and 9thYou know, if Id sat it out since my injury and got two top ten results like that on my first race back, Id be pretty happy, so Im feeling OK. I know where Im strugglingI still cant weight the pegs like I want, but I managed to pass a few people in the second race like Badovini and Cluzel and Checa. So Ill take that as my start point. Ive got some testing to do for the 8-hour, a few more weeks of training, then Moscow and were still really only halfway through the season. Step by step were getting back to where we should be, so Ill take those two top tens as a big positive for the weeks ahead.Pieter Breddelstechnical co-ordinatorJonathan got a really good start in race one but ran off a couple of corners later and had to start over again from further back. It was all running fine until two laps from the end when he pushed a little too hard and crashed. In race two he got another decent start but rode pretty much alone, but were quite happy to take a second back home. Again, weve had a good race and a bad race, so I hope we can head to Moscow for two good ones. Leon had two quite good races and for us that was quite a breakthrough. He was able not just to complete two races but to fight for positions. Hes still not 100% and if he can ride top ten in that condition, things will only get better. Hes getting more happy with the settings on the bike as well so, with some weeks before Moscow, we can look forward to him being fitter. It was a good day for him.2012 World Superbike championship, round sevenAutodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy4.936km, 21 lapsRace 1 result: 1 Tom Sykes (GBR) Kawasaki 2 Davide Giugliano (ITA) Aprilia 3 Eugene Laverty (IRL) Aprilia 4 Marco Melandri (ITA) BMW 5 Michel Fabrizio (ITA) Aprilia 6 Chaz Davies (GBR) BMW 10 Leon Haslam (GBR) Pata HondaRace 2 result: 1 Tom Sykes (GBR) Kawasaki 2 Jonathan Rea (GBR) Pata Honda 3 Sylvain Guintoli (FRA) Aprilia 4 Marco Melandri (ITA) BMW 5 Chaz Davies (GBR) BMW 6 Loris Baz (GBR) Kawasaki 9 Leon Haslam (GBR) Pata HondaChampionship points after 7 of 15 rounds:1 Sykes 235, 2 Guintoli 229, 3 Laverty 190, 4 Melandri 182, 5 Davies 154, 6 Baz 136, 7 Rea 125,15 Haslam 42Next round: Moscow Raceway, Russia19-21 July