Davies's second race, meanwhile, would come to an abrupt conclusion on the opening lap when he lost the rear of the S1000RR into MG hairpin and came into contact with Baz. Despite remounting and pitting for a new rear tyre, Davies would finish two laps down and out of the points. “In the opening lap of race two I lost the rear as I turned in. I'm not exactly sure why. The only reason I can give is either that somebody tapped me or that the extreme right hand side of the tyre wasn't quite scrubbed in and that made the rear spin around. “Unfortunately, Loris was on the outside of me and he had nowhere to go. Of course that was very disappointing but we are mostly taking the positives from the first race and will build on those for the future rounds.”
+
For race two, Haslam was caught up in the first lap collision between Loris Baz and Chaz Davies, the Briton dropped to the back of the field before fighting his way to tenth place. “In race two we made some positive changes but I had a bad start and then got caught in the melée with two other riders crashing out down at the MG hairpin on lap one.