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2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round
Round details
	Round 6 of 14 rounds in the ; 2012 Superbike World Championship.
	← Previous round; Donington Next round →; Misano
Date	May 28, 2012
Location	Miller Motorsports Park
Course	Permanent racing facility; 4.907 km (3.049 mi)
Superbike World Championship
Pole position
	Jakub Smrž
	1:47.626
Marco Melandri	Carlos Checa
1:48.867	1:48.820

The 2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round was the sixth round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 26–28, 2012 at Miller Motorsports Park, in Tooele, Utah, United States. The races were held on Memorial Day Monday.

Carlos Checa won the first race but lost the front and crashed in the second race while Marco Melandri finished second to Checa in the first race but won the second race. Still, it was Aprilia rider Max Biaggi that extended his lead in the championship standings by finishing third place in both races.^[1]

Superbike

Race 1 classification

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati 1098R	21	38:21.283	2	25
2	33	Marco Melandri	BMW S1000RR	21	+2.313	9	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	21	+5.338	7	16
4	65	Jonathan Rea	Honda CBR1000RR	21	+5.517	5	13
5	58	Eugene Laverty	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	21	+12.201	8	11
6	96	Jakub Smrž	Ducati 1098R	21	+13.262	1	10
7	19	Chaz Davies	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	21	+19.662	11	9
8	66	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki ZX-10R	21	+21.292	3	8
9	84	Michel Fabrizio	BMW S1000RR	21	+21.450	10	7
10	91	Leon Haslam	BMW S1000RR	21	+23.433	13	6
11	34	Davide Giugliano	Ducati 1098R	21	+23.696	4	5
12	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Ducati 1098R	21	+24.752	6	4
13	2	Leon Camier	Suzuki GSX-R 1000	21	+29.400	20	3
14	86	Ayrton Badovini	BMW S1000RR	21	+31.222	18	2
15	76	Loris Baz	Kawasaki ZX-10R	21	+32.966	17	1
16	121	Maxime Berger	Ducati 1098R	21	+35.409	14
17	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda CBR1000RR	21	+52.153	21
18	14	Shane Turpin	Ducati 1098R	20	+1 lap	24
19	16	Jake Holden	BMW S1000RR	20	+1 lap	23
Ret	36	Leandro Mercado	Kawasaki ZX-10R	13	Accident	22
Ret	87	Lorenzo Zanetti	Ducati 1098R	11	Accident	12
Ret	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki GSX-R 1000	7	Accident	16
Ret	44	David Salom	Kawasaki ZX-10R	7	Retirement	19
Ret	59	Niccolò Canepa	Ducati 1098R	6	Accident	15
OFFICIAL SUPERBIKE RACE 1 REPORT

Race 2 classification

The race was stopped after three laps due to Hiroshi Aoyama's crash, which spilt fluid on the track, and restarted an hour later on an 18-lap distance.^[2]

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	33	Marco Melandri	BMW S1000RR	18	32:56.257	9	25
2	65	Jonathan Rea	Honda CBR1000RR	18	+0.195	5	20
3	3	Max Biaggi	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	18	+2.137	7	16
4	19	Chaz Davies	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	18	+4.245	11	13
5	66	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki ZX-10R	18	+9.534	3	11
6	58	Eugene Laverty	Aprilia RSV4 Factory	18	+9.798	8	10
7	34	Davide Giugliano	Ducati 1098R	18	+11.891	4	9
8	91	Leon Haslam	BMW S1000RR	18	+12.715	13	8
9	96	Jakub Smrž	Ducati 1098R	18	+13.017	1	7
10	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Ducati 1098R	18	+13.703	6	6
11	2	Leon Camier	Suzuki GSX-R 1000	18	+15.687	20	5
12	84	Michel Fabrizio	BMW S1000RR	18	+21.923	10	4
13	86	Ayrton Badovini	BMW S1000RR	18	+23.940	18	3
14	76	Loris Baz	Kawasaki ZX-10R	18	+24.051	17	2
15	121	Maxime Berger	Ducati 1098R	18	+33.897	14	1
16	21	John Hopkins	Suzuki GSX-R 1000	18	+38.692	16
17	36	Leandro Mercado	Kawasaki ZX-10R	18	+47.703	22
18	16	Jake Holden	BMW S1000RR	18	+1:07.223	23
19	14	Shane Turpin	Ducati 1098R	18	+1:41.714	24
Ret	44	David Salom	Kawasaki ZX-10R	13	Retirement	19
Ret	7	Carlos Checa	Ducati 1098R	11	Retirement	2
Ret	59	Niccolò Canepa	Ducati 1098R	9	Retirement	15
Ret	87	Lorenzo Zanetti	Ducati 1098R	5	Accident	12
Ret	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda CBR1000RR		Not restarted	21
OFFICIAL SUPERBIKE RACE 2 REPORT