The Emilian rider of the Aruba.it Racing Ducati team triumphs solo with an advantage of over three seconds over the BMW standard-bearer, postponing the Turkish celebration to Sunday’s Superpole Race
TO Nicolò Bulega a victory was needed, the twelfth of the season, on the Jerez track to prevent Toprak Razgatlioglu to win, already in race 1, his third world title in Superbike. And so it was. The Emilian rider of the Aruba.it Racing Ducati team triumphed alone with an advantage of over three seconds over the BMW standard-bearer, postponing the Turkish celebration to the Superpole Race on Sunday 19th. Razgatlioglu’s lead over Bulega has dropped to 34 points. Nicolò had a good race, decided immediately at the start thanks to the Superpole won in the morning. Razgatlioglu is very fast, he seems to come out on top at the first corners, but he makes a small mistake which allows the young Ducati rider to dart away and start to accumulate precious seconds. Toprak had to settle for second place ahead of a combative rider Alvaro Bautistaauthor of a good comeback starting from mid-race when he was in sixth position. Box number four for the Panigale V4 R of Andrea Iannone, Team Pata Go Eleven, followed by the Honda of the Spaniard Xavi Vierge and the Bimota of the Englishman Alex Lowes. Andrea Locatelli’s official R1 was seventh, Australian Remy Gardner of the Gytr Grt Yamaha team was eighth, Tarran Mackenzie, Mgm Bonovo Racing, ninth, and the Dutchman Michael van der Mark, Rokit Bmw Motorrad WorldSbk Team, completed the top ten. Eleventh Axel Bassani, Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team, thirteenth Yari Montella, Barni Spark Racing Team, nineteenth was his teammate Niccolò Spinelli, twentieth Michael Ruben Rinaldi. Alessandro Delbianco is out of action, replacing the injured Dominique Aegerter aboard the Grt team Yamaha.
SBK Jerez: RACE 1 RANKING
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Here are the top ten in the rankings of the first race of the Spanish Superbike weekend, the last event of the season:
SBK Jerez: DRIVERS RANKING
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The top five in the Superbike world championship rider standings after Race 1 in Jerez:
SBK Jerez: Superpole
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Nicolò Bulega, Aruba.it Racing Ducati, won the Superpole on the Jerez track, the fifth of the season and the ninth of his career, setting the track record with a time of 1’36″629. Second position for Toprak Razgatlioglu, Rokit Bmw Motorrad WorldSbk Team, at +0.524, third Sam Lowes, Elf Marc Vds Racing Team, +0.972. Alex Lowes’ Bimota is fourth, preceding Andrea Cannone’s Ducati and Remy Gardner’s Yamaha. Seventh Jonathan Rea, Pata Maxus Yamaha, eighth Alvaro Bautista, Aruba.it Racing Ducati, ninth the Honda of Spaniard Xavi Vierge. Andrea’s R1 closes the top ten Locatelli.