WorldSBK.com provides some useful numbers about the eleventh round of the 2014 eni FIM Superbike World Championship, which takes place this weekend at Magny-Cours.

Tom Sykes is the man to beat in Magny-Cours, having won the last three races run here and having scored pole in the last two editions. Only Noriyuki Haga won more than Sykes here, with five wins from 2004 to 2009. Last year Sykes dominated both races by pulling away early and reaching the flag in race two with more than ten seconds over his rivals, posting also the two fastest race laps. Sykes adds to these wins a third in race one 2012: before these, he had never climbed on the podium in the six races run here from 2009 to 2011.

Sylvain Guintoli posted excellent results in his home track: winner in race one, 2012, in his last four races here he always climbed on the podium. Last year he was second behind Sykes and third behind Sykes and Laverty. He qualified twice second here (2010 and last year) and twice fifth (2011 and 2012) and he was never beaten in qualifying by a teammate. When he finished the races, seven times out of eight, Guintoli was never classified below sixth here (he was disqualified in 2010 in race one because he didn't serve a ride-through penalty after cutting a chicane).

Only two podiums out of seven races run here for Jonathan Rea: third in race two in 2009 and second, always in race two, in 2012. Rea was very unlucky so far in Magny-Cours: he recorded an off-track excursion in 2009 in race one while second and then his engine failed; in 2010 he had to withdraw from race two for pain in his wrist; in 2011 he was on pole but he wasn't able to see the chequered flag for a fall in race one and an injection problem in race two. This list is closed by a highside in race two in 2012, when he was leading with a ten seconds advantage over his rivals.

Marco Melandri finished three times second out of six races, but never won in Magny-Cours and doesn't count other podium finishes. His second places date back 2011 behind Checa in both races and in 2012 in race one behind Sylvain Guintoli. Last year he was fifth in race one: in race two he went off track, slipping to sixteenth before climbing back to seventh at the flag.

Loris Baz raced here in Superbikes only in 2012: he was suffering for a flu and was only tenth in race one and fell in race two while tenth. He raced here also in Superstock 1000, three times, finishing the race only in 2009, in third. In 2008, in Superstock 600, he was second behind Dan Linfoot.

Chaz Davies in both his Superbike weekends in Magny-Cours qualified in eighth, falling in both first races. In the second races he finished eighth two years ago and fifth last year. He raced three times in Supersport in Magny-Cours, finishing third in 2010 behind Eugene Laverty and Kenan Sofuoglu.

Three podiums for Eugene Laverty in Magny-Cours, a track in which he always finished his races (six) in the first seven. He was third in race two in 2011 behind Checa and Melandri and third and second last year, in both cases beaten by Sykes and in race two also by his team-mate Guintoli. In qualifying he was second in 2011, third in 2012 and fourth last year. Eugene won the 2010 Supersport race from Kenan Sofuoglu and Chaz Davies.

In all his four Superbike races in Magny-Cours, Davide Giugliano finished between fourth and eighth. Last year his best results: two fourth places from third in grid. Two years ago, in race two, he scored his maiden fastest race lap. Four Superstock 1000 races for him here: in the last two, run in 2010 and 2011, he was able to qualify on the front row with the fourth and the second time, finishing sixth and fifth in the races.

Last year Toni Elias clashed with Vincent Philippe in race one, causing the retirement of both, while in race two he was eighth.

Leon Haslam ran no less than fourteen races in Magny-Cours. He finished eleven times in the top-ten, was able to climb on the podium in second in race one in 2010 behind Cal Crutchlow and third in race one in 2011 behind Checa and Melandri. He didn't score points only three times, when he was victim of mechanical failures (2003 race one, 2012 race two, last year in race two).

The last race for Alex Lowes in Magny-Cours dates back 2009, when he was ninth in grid and sixteenth in the Superstock 1000 event.

Three races in the points out of four for David Salom here: he was sixteenth and fourteenth in 2009 and twice eleventh last year. The ones from 2009 were his maiden points.

Four Superstock 1000 races for Niccolò Canepa in Magny-Cours, which resulted in two podiums: third from pole in 2007 and second behind Jeremy Guarnoni last year. Niccolò ran here also in Supersport and in Superstock 600, in the latter he was second from pole, beaten by Yoann Tiberio, in 2005.

Jeremy Guarnoni last year won from pole the Superstock 1000 race from Niccolò Canepa and Lorenzo Salvadori, leading all the way. That was one of his two wins of the season, having also also in Jerez the round before. In 2012 Jeremy scored here his maiden Superstock 1000 win, starting from third: back then he also led again from lights to flag.

Sylvain Barrier raced here in Superstock 1000 six races from 2008 to last year, climbing four times on the podium. Last year he was second in grid, and in the race he settled for fourth, a result which was enough to grant him the championship.

Sheridan Morais was fifth in grid and in the race last year in Supersport here. For him also three Superstock 1000 and two Superbike races in Magny-Cours. In the last two, in 2009 he retired in race one and was nineteenth in race two.

Alessandro Andreozzi was tenth in grid and twelfth in the race in Superstock 1000 last year in Magny-Cours.

Claudio Corti raced here for the last time in 2012, in the Superbike championship, finishing ninth and twelfth. For him also four Superstock 1000 races, in which he finished in each of the first four places: winner in 2006, second in 2007, third in 2008 and fourth in 2009. In 2005, in Superstock 600 he was seventh, a place which nevertheless granted him the title with eight points over Yoann Tiberio.

The last race of Bryan Staring in Magny-Cours dates back 2012, when he was fifth in Superstock 1000.