Kawasaki’s Sofuoglu Wins Aragon World Supersport | Video Highlights

Kawasaki’s Sofuoglu Wins Aragon World Supersport | Video Highlights
Kawasaki’s Kenan Sofuoglu at Aragon Supersport

2014 Aragon World Supersport Results

Three-time World Champion Kenan Sofuoglu took his first win of the 2014 World Supersport season this past weekend at Motorland Aragon in Spain.

The Kawasaki Mahi Racing Team India ZX-6R pilot took the win after two of his main rivals – Jules Cluzel and Kev Coghlan – crashed ahead of him, allowing him to ride to victory alone.

Sofuoglu, who suffered a DNF in the Phillip Island opener, was joined on the podium by Pata Honda World Supersport’s Michael van der Mark and Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres pilot Florian Marino, respectively.

When the race began, six riders swapped places with MV Agusta RC – Yakhnich Motorsport’s Cluzel, the winner at Phillip Island. En route, Cluzel also claimed the a new lap record at Aragon.

As the race continued the leading group split with van der Mark, Sofuoglu, and Cluzel joining Coghlan (DMC Panavto-Yamaha) battling for victory.

Cluzel and Coghlan collided with each other at the back straight on lap 12, giving the lead to Sofuoglu. Cluzel was suffered a DNF, but Coghlan would remount and finish fifth.

This allowed Coghlan to keep the World Supersport points lead; the British rider has 31 points, just two ahead of Marino, and five ahead of Raffaele De Rosa (CIA Insurance Honda), who finished sixth at Aragon. Tied with 25 points in fourth and fifth is Sofuoglu and Cluzel.

The series now breaks for two weeks before heading to Assen in The Netherlands.

Attached above are video highlights of Aragon World Supersport.

2014 Aragon World Supersport Results:

1 Kenan Sofuoglu 30m43.276s TUR KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India
2 Michael van der Mark 0.869 NED HONDA Pata Honda
3 Florian Marino 9.091 FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
4 Lorenzo Zanetti 10.475 ITA HONDA Pata Honda
5 Kev Coghlan 15.194 GBR YAMAHA DMC Panavto-Yamaha
6 Raffaele De Rosa 18.579 ITA HONDA Core PTR Honda
7 Roberto Tamburini 19.059 ITA KAWASAKI San Carlo Puccetti Racing
8 Vladimir Leonov 19.666 RUS MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
9 Christian Gamarino 19.846 ITA KAWASAKI Team GO ELEVEN
10 Ratthapark Wilairot 20.077 THA HONDA Core PTR Honda
11 Jack Kennedy 24.569 IRL HONDA CIA Insurance Honda
12 Roberto Rolfo 25.187 ITA KAWASAKI Team GO ELEVEN
13 Dominic Schmitter 25.535 SUI YAMAHA HAGN-SKM Racing Team
14 Patrick Jacobsen 28.843 USA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
15 Fabio Menghi 28.904 ITA YAMAHA VFT Racing
16 Marco Bussolotti 33.148 ITA HONDA Team Lorini
17 Tony Covena 43.243 NED KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
18 Fraser Rogers 56.196 GBR HONDA Com Plus South Tyneside College
19 Alexey Ivanov 56.460 RUS YAMAHA DMC Panavto-Yamaha
20 Nacho Calero 1’11.373 ESP HONDA CIA Insurance Honda
21 Jules Cluzel DNF FRA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
22 Alessandro Nocco DNF ITA KAWASAKI San Carlo Puccetti Racing
23 Riccardo Russo DNF ITA HONDA Team Lorini
24 Kevin Wahr DNF GER YAMAHA Team Wahr by Kraus Racing

2014 World Supersport Point Standings:

1 Kev Coghlan 31 pts GBR YAMAHA DMC Panavto-Yamaha
2 Florian Marino 29 pts FRA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
3 Raffaele De Rosa 26 pts ITA HONDA Core PTR Honda
4 Kenan Sofuoglu 25 pts TUR KAWASAKI MAHI Racing Team India
5 Jules Cluzel 25 pts FRA MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
6 Roberto Tamburini 20 pts ITA KAWASAKI San Carlo Puccetti Racing
7 Michael van der Mark 20 pts NED HONDA Pata Honda
8 Lorenzo Zanetti 13 pts ITA HONDA Pata Honda
9 Christian Gamarino 13 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team GO ELEVEN
10 Kevin Wahr 10 pts GER YAMAHA Team Wahr by Kraus Racing
11 Roberto Rolfo 9 pts ITA KAWASAKI Team GO ELEVEN
12 Graeme Gowland 9 pts GBR TRIUMPH Smiths Triumph
13 Vladimir Leonov 8 pts RUS MV AGUSTA MV Agusta RC-Yakhnich Motorsport
14 Riccardo Russo 8 pts ITA HONDA Team Lorini
15 Fabio Menghi 8 pts ITA YAMAHA VFT Racing
16 Ratthapark Wilairot 6 pts THA HONDA Core PTR Honda
17 Jack Kennedy 5 pts IRL HONDA CIA Insurance Honda
18 Tony Covena 4 pts NED KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
19 Nacho Calero 3 pts ESP HONDA CIA Insurance Honda
20 Patrick Jacobsen 2 pts USA KAWASAKI Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres
21 Marco Bussolotti 2 pts ITA HONDA Team Lorini
22 Fraser Rogers 1 pts GBR HONDA Com Plus South Tyneside College
23 R Taylor 0 pts AUS YAMAHA OZ Wildcard Racing
24 Alexey Ivanov 0 pts RUS YAMAHA DMC Panavto-Yamaha

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