Carlos Checa took the honors for Althea Ducati in Sunday's second World Superbike race from Philip Island from Aprilia's Max Biaggi and Tom Sykes. Checa won comfortably after Biaggi ran off track when he nearly collided with Sykes' Kawasaki at the opening corner, leaving the Roman to fight his way through the field from dead last.

Sykes stole the final step on the podium from the Honda of Jonathan Rea in a drag race from the final corner of the last lap in a battle filled with tire smoke and black lines trailing from both bikes at every corner exit.

Leon Haslam held on to fifth place after a long duel with BMW teammate Marco Melandri, despite a tibia fracture that put his involvement in this race weekend in doubt earlier in the week.

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