Race 2 of the Pirelli Malaysian Round of this year’s eni FIM Superbike World Championship was won by Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) after a turn one incident saw Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) crash out of contention with Tom Sykes and Alex Lowes having to take avoiding action. While Biaggi retired Sykes and Lowes continued with the former champion crashing at Turn 9 with ten laps to go which ended his championship ambitions for 2015. Lowes eventually recovered to 8th.

Unlike the opening race of the day it was Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team rider Chaz Davies that attempted to make the break with champion elect Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) giving chase. The British rider maintaining his pace until the end to secure his 3rd victory in four races and with it move into 2nd overall in the championship standing after he and Rea touched at the final corner.

Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) obviously worked hard during the day’s two races, the Spanish WorldSBK rookie able to lap consistently in the 2.06s bracket for the duration of race 2 to claim his second podium finish of the season.

Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda) scored another 4th position, his best weekend of the season ahead of team mate Michael van der Mark who made up for his race one retirement with a fine 5th.

Leon Haslam was 6th on his Aprilia Racing – Red Devils machine, finishing a tenth behind the Dutchman.

David Salom (Team Pedercini), Alex Lowes, Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing) and Roman Ramos (Team Go Eleven) were 7th to 10th respectively with Niccolo Canepa (Althea Racing), Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse), Randy de Puniet (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), Tom Sykes and Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing) completing the points finishers.

1   Chaz Davies 33m36.466s GBR DUCATI Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team 2   Jonathan Rea +0.091s GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 3   Jordi Torres +5.008s ESP APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 4   Sylvain Guintoli +13.130s FRA HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team 5   Michael van der Mark +15.801s NED HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team 6   Leon Haslam +15.970s GBR APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 7   David Salom +24.561s ESP KAWASAKI Team Pedercini 8   Alex Lowes +26.526s GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 9   Matteo Baiocco +28.528s ITA DUCATI Althea Racing 10   Roman Ramos +31.598s ESP KAWASAKI Team GO Eleven

  Championship Standings

1   Jonathan Rea 452 pts GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 2   Chaz Davies 308 pts GBR DUCATI Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team 3   Tom Sykes 295 pts GBR KAWASAKI Kawasaki Racing Team 4   Leon Haslam 259 pts GBR APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 5   Jordi Torres 186 pts ESP APRILIA Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils 6   Sylvain Guintoli 162 pts FRA HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team 7   Michael van der Mark 125 pts NED HONDA Pata Honda World Superbike Team 8   Davide Guigliano 119 pts ITA DUCATI Aruba.it Racing-Ducati Superbike Team 9   Alex Lowes 112 pts GBR SUZUKI Voltcom Crescent Suzuki 10   Matteo Baiocco 107 pts ITA DUCATI Althea Racing