Superbike: Sparks between Baz and Sykes after the race

Predictably, Loris Baz's "great refusal" to obey team orders and let Tom Sykes pass in a world championship perspective, left many consequences, if only between the two protagonists.

The story is now well known, at the beginning of the last lap of Race 1 Baz was asked to give up his second position to Tom, an order which however the Frenchman decided not to respect, ending up between the two contenders for the title and leaving many dismayed. Kawasaki garage mechanics.

The two now former teammates, who have never made a secret of not respecting each other, entrusted their thoughts on the incident to Twitter, with Sykes understandably criticizing the behavior of Baz, who for his part had admitted already in the immediately after the race, that he had ignored the sign on purpose.

"The order? I saw it, but I am a good person to those who are good to me,” he said Loris Baz post-race.
The Frenchman, who will move to MotoGP with the Forward team next season, then made matters worse with a tweet written after Race 2: “Regarding the team orders. At least I helped him once! At Magny Cours. I'm not sure I can say the same. End, now MotoGP.”

A tweet that sparked the anger of Sykes who responded very harshly: “Nice words, big mouth! Yes, you helped me at Magny Cours. But my data and settings helped you when you arrived at Kawasaki."
“Team orders are given to you by the team and not by me, that team and builder who gave you everything.”
“Those team orders that were probably given to you by the mess you created in Sepang for the team and for Kawasaki.”
“But as always, your ego is too big to see the team's needs. You showed no respect for the team's orders."
“Anyway, I wish you good luck next year. And congratulations on your fifth place, you must be proud?!”

A dig to which Baz responded piqued: “Yes, I'm happy with my 5th place! At 21 you were struggling in the BSB, right?”, then furthering the matter in another tweet: “I would never want to win the title thanks to a team order, I would prefer to finish second. I will be ready to help a teammate of mine win, but only if I have a good relationship with him."

In short, a bad way to end a relationship that was damaged this year due to the greater competitiveness of Baz who finally broke down in the first corners of Race 1 of the Malaysian round.

We'll see what the coexistence in the Kawasaki garage will be like between Sykes and his new teammate Jonathan Rea.