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The ninth round of the championship will be taking place at Brno in the Czech Republic this weekend, a circuit where in 2009 Max Biaggi won for the first time with the Aprilia RSV4. The four-time world champion can boast a fantastic record at the Czech track, having already won eight times previously, triumphing in every category in which he has taken part: four times in 250, twice in 500, once in MotoGP and for the first time in SBK in 2007. His sequence of five successive wins between 1994 and 1998 also remains in the memory.

The Czech Republic Round comes after an extraordinary series of results for Biaggi and Aprilia. The last two rounds at Miller (USA) and Misano (San Marino) have resulted in four wins that have taken the Italian rider to the top of the championship, with a lead of 37 points over Leon Haslam (Suzuki), his closest rival.

Max however remains fully focused on the Brno races: "To say the least, Brno is a track I like and that's no mystery for anyone, it's a track where I can really express my full potential and I have obtained a lot of important wins there. For sure I like to remember last year's, the first with Aprilia in Superbike. It was an important moment, because our bike was still in an early stage of development, but we got that great result anyway. Now that we have scored more wins we must not forget how much work has been put into the project by everyone all together, to reach this level of competitiveness.

"I really love racing at Brno, I enjoy the circuit and it is with this desire to compete that I will take to the track, trying to enjoy myself and to give 100%, as always. I believe that this is the right way to tackle the weekend. We are over half-way through the championship season, but it's still too early to start to make complicated calculations about the eventual outcome".