world superbike delivers the goods

carlos checa stalked and walked in both legs of the first round of world superbike in australia. marco melandri had an awesome battle with leon haslam for 3rd place, haslam would of course come out on top for the bottom of the box, max biaggi (current world superbike champion) nabbed second ripping around on the v4 aprilia. race 2 the battle was for 2nd place, and at times the bikes were nearly 4 wide, bitchen action that was truly some of the best superbike racing since colin edwards and troy bayliss last battled in the series. this time mad max biaggi and marco melandri would duke it out for the second and third spot on the podium, melandris yamaha would get long tracked by biaggis aprilia at the end of the straight, although biaggi would not gap his italian countryman he did take the second spot in true roman emperor fashion.
all of this racing was delivered commercial free from eurosport, complete with pre race grid shots and plenty of post race stuff as well. the europeans just plain get it right, no bullshit, lots of cool shots you just plain dont get with the crap american coverage. watered down is to put it mildly.
in all the glory of action, the camera focused mainly on the battles behind carlos checa, but when he came into view it reminded me of the way a certain carl fogarty worked his craft on the good old 916 ducati. go checa!