Daemen races to Salzburgring victory

From Team Suzuki

Werner Daemen raced his GSX-R1000 to victory in Sunday's German IDM Superbike Championship round at Salzburgring.

The first heat went to Jorg Teuchert (Yamaha) ahead of Martin Bauer (Honda) and Daemen, but in the second heat the Belgian rider turned the tables on his rivals and gained Suzuki its first win of the season.

At the Austrian circuit, the Suzuki International Europe importer's team of Andy Meklau and Dominic Lammert struggled with some technical problems although Meklau was fourth in the morning race, just missing the podium. In the afternoon he seemed all set for a place among the first three until the race was stopped because of a serious accident involving Kai-Borre Andersen (MV Agusta). The positions in the preceding lap, on which Meklau lay sixth, were taken as the final result.

1st Heat Resuts
1. Jörg Teuchert (D, Yamaha), 2. Martin Bauer (A, Honda), 3. Werner Daemen (B, Suzuki), 4. Andy Meklau (A, Suzuki), 5. Kai-Borre Andersen (NOR, MV Agusta), 6. Gábor Rizmayer (H, Suzuki), 7. Olivier Depoorter (B, Suzuki), 8. Gwen Giabbani (F, Kawasaki), 9. Nina Prinz (D, Yamaha), 10. Roman Stamm (CH, Suzuki)
2nd Heat Resuts
1. Werner Daemen (B, Suzuki), 2. Jörg Teuchert (D, Yamaha), 3. Martin Bauer (A, Honda), 4. Kai-Borre Andersen (NOR, MV Agusta), 5. Günther Knobloch (A, Ducati), 6. Andy Meklau (A, Suzuki), 7. Nina Prinz (D, Yamaha), 8. Chris Zaiser (A, Ducati), 9. Gwen Giabbani (F, Kawasaki), 10. Roman Stamm (CH, Suzuki)
Points
1. Bauer 206, 2. Teuchert 175, 3. Daemen 159, 4. Meklau 153, 5. Stamm 95, 6. Andersen 69, 7. Zaiser 65, 8. Depoorter 61, 9. Lammert 57, 10. Knobloch 50