The exhibition of Razgatlioglu who deflowered himself with the return of BMW and Bautista with a happy ending

Toprak Razgatlioglu has achieved victory in Race 1 of WorldSBK within Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunyain front of Nicolò Bulega and Alvaro Bautista. The Turk had already sent a serious warning in the morning, managed to defeat him bmw the historical record of the Catalan route.

In the early stages of a test scheduled for 20 laps, the ’54’ and Sam Lowes They had set the pace and were able to open a small gap to the pursuers. The Briton, who started in fifth position, was comfortable with him Ducati and overtook the Turk to lead the race.

in the back, Iannonehow quickly it suffered from overtaking a Bullega which in the same turn happened to Razgatlioglu to go in search of a Lowes that’s gone.

But the pilot of ELF Marc VDS Racingfaithful to an irregularity that has already marked his sports career Moto2 and MotoGPcrashed out with 15 laps remaining, paving the way for what looked like a good battle for victory between ‘Bulegas‘, Iannone and Toprak.

Alvaro Bautistaaway from the podium positions – he finished 11th in superpole but he started 14th after a penalty for riding slowly in the qualifying session – he rode along Andrea Locatelli, Alex Lowes and Danilo Petrucci in a group fighting for fifth position.

Bulega, intractable almost to the end

First and with a free track, Bullega He does not like trouble and sets an unattainable pace Iannone and Razgatlioglu. The pilot of Aruba.it Ducati Racing distanced himself for more than four seconds, forcefully Michael van der Mark, Iannone and Toprak They will fight each other for two more podium positions.

Baptistat the wheel of Petrucci, has closed the gap on the drivers ahead and it looks like both could enter the fight for second and third place. The current world champion saw this and decided to pass ‘Peter‘to go for bmw of Van der Mark.

With a spectacular reach into the penultimate corner, Baptist He passed the Dutchman with seven laps remaining to put himself fourth and went for a Iannone which is 1.4 seconds away. And, with four laps to go, ‘1’ passed a Iannone who quickly, though without luck, tried to return the maneuver to a straight line.

Razgatliogluin the final laps, he smelled blood and increased the speed to make contact Bullega. The Turk managed to reduce the more than four seconds between them to zero and, on the last lap, he managed to pass the Italian to cross the finish line first and celebrate his first victory in ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team.