Kenan was in the fight at the front of the first attempted race, but after less than ten laps of the scheduled 18 the red flags came out to stop the action after another rider’s machine lost its oil.

After a long delay to clean up the oil a complete new race, over only five laps, was called by the race organisers. Kenan, who was anxious to get away from the hordes of riders who felt this very short race format would give them a greater opportunity to win, fell while leading. He was unable to restart and now looks to the next round in Aragon to score his first points of 2014.

The highest placed Kawasaki rider in the final five-lap race was Florian Marino (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpres) in fourth place, with Roberto Tamburini (Kawasaki San Carlo Puccetti Racing) only one place behind.

Kenan Sofuoglu: “You cannot come to Australia to race for five laps. I crashed because I wanted to get away from everybody in the restarted race because five laps is an exciting gift to everyone in the field. Anyway, I am so disappointed because I was the fastest in practice after all the good work we did. I could have won the first race but then they stopped it and called for a five lap race, so everybody went on full attack. Anyway, I crashed and it is very disappointing after doing so well in practice and qualifying. Now we go to Aragon for the second round.”