A championship reduced to only 4 meetings at Mugello, Misano, Imola and Vallelunga, but each meeting includes two races in each of the five categories, which allows us to see for the moment that drivers with experience in Grands Prix logically dominate there. their “national” adversaries.
So, the Moto3 showed on Saturday an inaccessible Kevin Zannoni. The now standard bearer of Gresini Junior Team Honda, after having achieved a record pole by improving the previous reference on a single lap, made a gap behind him in the race, winning the victory with more than 8 seconds gap on the first of his pursuers. The one we have already seen 4 times in Grands Prix (Buriram, Mugello and Misano twice) also managed to beat the lap record for the category in a national race, with a time of 1'57.860 to compare to the record in Grand Prix of 1'56.407 (Tony Arbolino 2019). Behind him, the battle was fierce for the other places on the podium, the second step finally welcoming the Spaniard Perez Selfa for Davide Giugliano's TM team, while Elia Bartolini (RMU VR46 Riders Academy) completes this trio.
Same in category Superbike where only 16 pilots were at the start, we witnessed the triumph of Lorenzo Savadori, the current Aprilia MotoGP test rider, despite opposition from his colleague from Ducati and multiple reigning champion, Michele Pirro.
Starting from second position, the Aprilia Nuova M2 Racing rider managed to put into practice a perfect strategy by immediately taking the lead of the race, just ahead of Michele Pirro. Halfway through the race, the latter attacked the Aprilia rider and took command before losing control of his Barni Racing Team Ducati two turns later. From then on, Lorenzo Savadori maintained his pace, unsustainable for his other opponents, obtaining the first victory of this ELF CIV SBK 2020 with more than 5 seconds ahead of the first of his opponents, Samuel Knights, Michele Pirro's teammate, while the third step goes to Lorenzo Zanetti (Ducati Broncos).
Also note that in Supersport Andrea Locatelli (Yamaha Bardahl Evan Bros), leader of the 600 World Championship, was the first to take the checkered flag, but he does not obtain points and does not appear in the ranking, due to his situation of wildcard and the Italian rules.
The rematches take place this Sunday…
