Jonathan Rea is an expert on the final curves

On these three dates, Superbike becomes a war novel with three protagonists with three different weapons. In this chapter he is a winner Jonathan Rea won Race 2 and Superpole in Estoril in the last lap bothadded 116 victories.

Non -surrender is the most representative of the Kawasaki rider. After going behind Álvaro in the final laps he caught up with him on the “hook” to reach the straight with a sufficient distance so that the Spaniard would not overtake him like previous turns.

The race began in a strong forward group consisting of Toprak Razgatlioglu, Jonathan Rea, Alex Lowes and Álvaro Bautista that is distancing lap by lap. With fifteen laps remaining, Toprak Razgatlioglu overtook Jonathan Rea and tried to pull back from the group to open up a bigger distance with chasers Andrea Locatelli and Iker Lecuona, but he couldn’t.

The exchange of front positions between Rea and Razgatlioglu was continuous, until Bautista shortened the distance and removed the stickers on the straight, showing the power of Ducati.

Sam Lowes tried to be part of that group of three, but a mistake caused him to withdraw and he could no longer rejoin the group. On the contrary, he almost got caught on his last lap Andrea Locatelli and Iker Lecuona. Needed by Honda rider run the whole race without fenders, because it broke in the warm-up lap. Despite this, he was able to finish sixth and fifth in the overall classification with 76 points in his first year.

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The last lap came a long way. You can see how stuck they are Jonathan Rea and Álvaro Bautista, they are almost close. But Rea prepared her overtake in the previous lap, where she made the fastest lap of the race and when she reached the last corners of the Portuguese circuit she did the action and passed without reflection on Bautista. After overtaking, the British pilot had a fear, but he keeps turning on the gas to get to the finish line in the first position.

Although the track is better than the Superpole race, there are still puddles near the piano, preventing them from making any mistakes that would bring them closer to that place. Xavi Vierge verified this and he had to make good saves to continue the race. The Honda rider finished in ninth, followed by Xavi Fores. Isaac Viñales fell in the first laps and not continued.

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