The Spanish pilot Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing-Ducati) achieved the 400th victory for the Ducati team in the Superbike World Championship in a weekend where he conquered the triple at the Assen circuit (Netherlands).
In this way Ducati, who also made his 700th podiumbecame the first manufacturer to reach this milestone in the category and Bautista, extending his lead in the overall standings, continues to add personal victories to reach 40 wins.
After the victory of the man from Talavera on Saturday, he confirmed his state of grace this Sunday in the fast Superpole race, of eight laps, where he knew how to fight the British attacks. Jonathan Rhea (Kawasaki) and Turkish Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha).
rheathe most successful rider in history, did not break away for an instant from the rear wheel of the Spaniard’s Ducati, who made a change of pace with two laps remaining. Baptist He left indelibly to a new victory before the British and the Ottomans.
And in race 2, the last weekend, Baptist He knows how to manage well and wins heads-ups against the Turk Toprak Razgatlioglu after british Jonathan Rheawho fought them at the beginning, had to retire after suffering a fall.
Third is the Italian Andrea Locatelli (Yamaha), which preceded the Swiss Dominique Aegerter (Yamaha), who completed an impressive weekend and with this fourth place confirmed the good vibes of the previous race where he was sixth. The Helvetian benefited by sanctioning a position in the Alex Bassani for exceeding the track limits in the last turn.
In the global classification of the championship, Baptist now entrenched at the top with a total of 174 points. following him razgatlioglu with 118 and third place Locatelli there are 104. rhea He is only fifth with 73. The next test will take place at the Circuit de Catalunya between May 5 and 7.
It was not a very good weekend for the other Spanish riders. Xavi Vierge He could only get six points between the three tests and was ninth overall and Iker Lecuona didn’t even score.
Source: La Verdad
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