Alvaro Bautistathat last Sunday in Indonesia secured the World title of superbikesreleased it this Saturday with a fifth place at Phillip Island (Australia), scene of the twelfth and final test of the season, where the British Jonathan Rhea He got his 118th victory in this motorcycling discipline.
Almost six months after his last victory (Estoril, in May), rheaa Kawasaki rider who became a six-time Superbike world champion, scored race 1 with an appropriate tire change strategy.
The Northern Irish pilot prevailed with great authority over the Turk Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha) and his colleague, also British alex is coming down in a race that started in the wet and ended mostly dry after 22 laps.
A strategic stop in the pits to be “smooth” tires when the asphalt dries, in the middle of the course, will be decisive for the outcome of the test.
rhea was one of the first to pit, on lap 10 with razgatlioglu, and fourth before the pilots before him had stopped. By lap 15 he was in the lead, while Bautista entered lap 11, one behind his two great rivals.
The Italian Andrea Locatelli (Yamaha) finished fourth after losing Baptist (Ducati) in the last part of the test, shortly after I did it lowes on lap 17, taking advantage of the difficulties the man from Talavera had to spin his Panigale V4 after entering the pit lane.
The results, however, are enough for ducati to secure, with Sunday’s race remaining, the 2022 manufacturers’ title, for the eighteenth time in Superbike.
Source: La Verdad
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