Chaz Davies took his second victory in as many years at the Nurburgring as an oil spillage halted proceedings for the second time in the day. The Welshman finished ahead of Eugene Laverty and Marco Melandri while Tom Sykes saw off Sylvain Guintoli for fourth, wrestling the championship lead from the Frenchman in the process.
Davies was involved in a fierce tussle with Laverty and his teammate Melandri but the Welshman’s expertise on the brakes proved decisive as he held off the pair until a crash for Matej Smrz at turn one dumped oil on the circuit. Learning the lessons from race one’s catastrophic conclusion, race direction threw out the red flags without hesitation.
“I am obviously super happy with the victory in race two”, commented Davies. “I was already happy with my podium in race one but I knew we could improve and so we did. I felt that my RR was a little bit better in certain areas of the track. It was still hard to brake but I tried all I could do to build a bit of a gap. It was a good battle with Eugene and Marco. The last couple of laps I just put my head down seeing if I could just get away from the guys fighting behind me. I was thinking that there couldn’t be another red flag but just in case I tried to stay in the lead. In the end the red flag came and I was in right place at the right time. A big Thank you to my team; they did a great job this weekend and we got a double podium again. I wish all the best and a speedy recovery to the guys that got injured today.”
After coming into race two with a one point deficit to Guintoli, Tom Sykes moved a point ahead of the Aprilia rider by beating him to fourth while Davide Giugliano finished sixth on the Althea Aprilia. Polesitter Ayrton Badovini took seventh with his teammate Carlos Checa a disappointing tenth behind Michel Fabrizio and home rider Max Neukirchner.
| 2013 eni Superbike World Championship | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riders Championship Standings After Round 10: Nurburgring | |||||
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Team | Wins | Pts |
| 1 |  Tom Sykes |
Kawasaki | Kawasaki Racing Team | 6 | 287 |
| 2 |  Sylvain Guintoli |
Aprilia | Aprilia Racing Team | 1 | 286 |
| 3 |  Marco Melandri |
BMW | BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK | 3 | 257 |
| 4 |  Eugene Laverty |
Aprilia | Aprilia Racing Team | 4 | 247 |
| 5 | Chaz Davies |
BMW | BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK | 3 | 221 |
| 6 | Loris Baz |
Kawasaki | Kawasaki Racing Team | 1 | 180 |
| 7 | Jonathan Rea |
Honda | PATA Honda World Superbike | 1 | 176 |
| 8 | Michel Fabrizio |
Aprilia | Red Devils Roma | 156 | |
| 9 | Jules Cluzel |
Suzuki | FIXI Crescent Suzuki | 123 | |
| 10 | Davide Giugliano |
Aprilia | Althea Racing | 121 | |
| 11 | Leon Camier |
Suzuki | FIXI Crescent Suzuki | 114 | |
| 12 | Ayrton Badovini |
Ducati | Team Ducati Alstare | 107 | |
| 13 |  Max Neukirchner |
Ducati | MR-Racing | 84 | |
| 14 |  Carlos Checa |
Ducati | Team Ducati Alstare | 80 | |
| 15 | Leon Haslam |
Honda | PATA Honda World Superbike | 63 | |
| 16 | Federico Sandi |
Kawasaki | Pedercini Team | 36 | |
| 17 | Vittorio Iannuzzo |
BMW | Grillini Dentalmatic SBK | 18 | |
| 18 | Ivan Clementi |
BMW | HTM Racing | 18 | |
| 19 |  Mark Aitchison |
Ducati | Team Effenbert Liberty Racing | 15 | |
| 20 | Niccolo Canepa |
Ducati | Team Ducati Alstare | 11 | |
| 21 |  Alexander Lundh |
Kawasaki | Pedercini Team | 10 | |
| 22 | Fabrizio Lai |
Kawasaki | Pedercini Team | 8 | |
| 23 | Markus Reiterberger |
BMW | Vanzon-Remeha-BMW | 7 | |
| 24 | Glenn Allerton |
BMW | Next Gen Motorsports | 6 | |
| 25 |  Matej Smrz |
Yamaha | Yamaha Motor Deutschland | 4 | |
| 26 | Jamie Stauffer |
Honda | Team Honda Racing | 4 | |
| 27 |  Kosuke Akiyoshi |
Honda | PATA Honda World Superbike | 2 | |
| 28 | Noriyuki Haga |
BMW | Grillini Dentalmatic SBK | 2 | |
| Next Round: Istanbul Park (September 15th) | |||||
