Alvaro Bautista has achieved success in Race 2 of WorldSBK Catalunya Round. The current world champion, who this year had to carry a weight of five kilograms with him Ducati to follow the law of minimum weight between bike and rider, from less to more over the weekend and left his irregular start to the season with his first victory on the course.
The ‘1’, which started from the first line thanks to his third position in Super Pole Raceled the first corner of a Race 2 scheduled for 20 laps followed by Iannone, Bullega, Razgatlioglu and Alex Lowes.
In the first turn, Rinaldi and Bassani was knocked out after a hit on turn four, while Locatellialso involved, saved the fall, but was left behind in the group. Lecuone He also went down in the early stages with Bradley Ray.
In the head,’Bulegas‘was tried on several occasions to surpass Baptist and, with 16 laps remaining, he led the race away from him. The Italian, with a free track, quickly opened a gap of seven tenths to a world champion, leading Toprak in his wake.
Without surprises
In the race somewhat stabilized, the battle between the brothers Lowes for the ninth position, it is the most entertaining for the viewer. At the end of the straight, they both overtook Jonathan Reabut they lingered and the Briton temporarily retained eighth place.
Bullegaleader for most of Race 2 as he had already done in Race 1saw how Baptist It wasn’t going to be easy for him and, with 11 laps remaining, the Spaniard once again took the lead in a lap where the ‘1’ clocked six tenths faster than his teammate.
Behind those Aruba.it Ducati, Razgatlioglu he was running third by more than two and a half seconds with Iannone room The Italian, who was not far from the podium, crashed in the remaining eighteen laps to end his weekend in Barcelona giving up fourth position to Michael van der Mark.
With the bmw of Razgatlioglu and Van der Mark farther apart, the race went head-to-head at intervals Baptist and’Bulegas‘. But the ‘1’ did not want to give him a choice and, with three laps remaining, he widened the distance between them from four to seven tenths. Finally, the distance between the two is more than a second.
Baptistwinner of Race 2was accompanied to the podium by Nicolò Bulega and Toprak Razgatlioglu. Van der Mark and Petrucci Completed the top-5 of a quiz where Jonathan Rea He added his first points of the season.
Xavi Vierge became the 13th and Uncle Rabat It became the 15th.
Source: La Verdad
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