Eurosport's anchor looks forward to Monza, where Troy Bayliss could equal the legendary Carl Fogerty's number of pole positions.

Round five of the WSB championship and new blood takes to the track at Monza in the form of Jake Zemke, the prodigious superbike rider fresh from the US of A.

Zemke stands in for the injured Robbie Rolfo, after original replacement Giovanni Bussei's arm injury flared-up while training earlier this week.

Zemke is known for hard riding in the AMA championships and getting him out on the Honda could be good although as a newcomer to the series, and being asked to be quick from the off at Monza, is a huge hill for anyone to climb.

He'll have to beat the like of Troy Bayliss, who now only needs one pole position to match Carl Fogarty's record of 21 (the all-time Superpole top man is Troy Corser with 41), and has already taken five wins from the first eight races of the year so far.

But whatever happens in the WSB outings, I'll bet that the raft of British interest on Sunday is focussed on the World Supersport championship - and quite rightly so.

Many of the non-Supersport riders I've been talking to over the past couple of weeks have, and still are, talking about that amazing race we saw at Assen.

If you didn't see it then do everything in your power to watch it while there's still time, at one point we had up to 10 riders chasing the win and on more than one flying lap the lead changed hands three, four and five times.

It was crazy. It was brilliant. And at the sharp end was our very own Jonathan Rea. He was just pipped across the line by 0.014 seconds by his team-mate Andrew Pitt.

The result was very almost irrelevant though because the racing was just so good. Craig Jones was back to his gloriously hard-riding, hard-sliding best in the middleweight battle too but technical gremlins with his bike put paid to any chance of the win with a few laps to go.

Monza is one of the great tracks and rewards brave moves. It's ideal for sweeping attacks through the fast turns and opportunistic lunges on the brakes, which is what we saw by the bucket-load at Assen.

And it's not just Jonesey and Jonny who deserve our Sunday attention, there's Graeme Gowland and Chris Walker out there too.

Gowland is impressing a lot of paddock people at the moment. Many are saying that his smooth style is worthy of a look in the next few races and Stalker is getting the previously doggy Kawasaki up to something like race pace. I say he's getting it there but I think dragging it up there is a more accurate way of describing the hard work Chris and his team are putting in.

Don't be too surprised if the green bike is somewhere much nearer the front than in previous outings on Sunday. Stalker won't be.

Tony Carter / Eurosport