Carlos Checa scores his first double top five finish since Imola with a run to third and fourth at Brno.

Carlos Checa says he cannot complain about finishing third and fourth at Brno as the reigning champion picked up his first double top five finish since Imola.

Determined to keep his flagging title defence alive, Checa qualified well to start on the front row, but while he was never far from the front in either race, he was never able to get embroiled in the lead fight.

Nonetheless, fourth place in race one and a third place in race two signalled a brace of solid finishes for the Althea Ducati rider, the Spaniard insisting he is happy to have scored good points around a circuit that he feels doesn't play to the twin-cylinder machine's strengths.

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