Checa delighted with landmark Silverstone success
Added on Monday, August 1st, 2011 by Carole Nash Editor
Checa delighted with landmark Silverstone success
Carlos Checa could not hide his delight at securing a double victory at Silverstone on Sunday, extending his lead in the championship to 62 points.
The Spaniard secured his ninth and tenth wins of the season at Silverstone, beating Michael Laverty and Marco Melandri on both occasions, to get back to winning ways in the championship, with just four rounds of the season remaining.
And the Althea Ducati’s success marked a milestone for Ducati, with the manufacturer celebrating its 300th World Superbike success.
“It was a wonderful day,” claimed Checa. “I didn’t believe that it would be possible to win here, but we managed to do it twice over!
“To achieve the 300th win for Ducati is an important result and we are all very happy to have been able to repeat this in race two. I thank everyone involved, my team, Ducati and all the sponsors. I also heard that I have now completed 100 SBK races. I didn’t know this but the important thing is that I still feel young and am not yet 100 years old!
“We have a good advantage for now but as we all know, it is hard to build up points and easy to lose them. We now head to tracks where I have had some good results in the past but we are taking it one step at a time; nothing is a given. It’s been a fantastic weekend that I will remember forever. Now the team can go on holiday in a more relaxed state of mind.”
