WSBK Superbike Aragón2 Race 1: Rinaldi, a star is born

De Paul Gozzi  / Corsedimoto.com

Michael Rinaldi celebrates his first world championship success with a privateer Ducati, giving a great lesson to all the big names. Meanwhile, Jonathan Rea runs away at the World Championship, while Scott Redding goes to ground.

Michael Rinaldi, in one fell swoop: he had never been on the podium, but he won his first world success at Motorland Aragón, while teaching a lesson to all the big names in the world. At 24, from Rimini, he achieved a great feat by masterfully piloting the Ducati Panigale V4 R of the Go Eleven team, a small private team with its heart in Piedmont and an operational base in Cesena. After years of sacrifices, suffering and a thousand worries, patron Gianni Ramello receives the greatest satisfaction from his adventure as a patron and discoverer of racing talents. Incredible Michael Rinaldi: risking the ultra-soft rear tire, which in Pirelli plans should have lasted just over ten laps, he did eighteen at full throttle, scattering them all on the road.

Jonathan Rhea, number one, immediately understood the tactic: attacking young Michael was simply impossible. But with second place, combined with Scott Redding's first mistake, the Cannibal climbs to +30 points in advance. It is thanks to days like this, that is to say when he loses, that Jonathan Rea builds his world titles. Rinaldi wasted no time: from second place on the grid, he got rid of first Scott Redding then Jonathan Rea in a few turns. From then on, he built his first world victory at a pace that was unsustainable for everyone. Instead, Scott Redding entered the fray and lost the lead trying to resist pressure from Alvaro Bautista. This is a very serious mistake now for Ducati, because winning the World Championship which has been missing for nine years is becoming really difficult.

Álvaro Bautista also makes a mistake

In the final part, attacked by Chaz Davies, the Spaniard from Honda also took off: on Sunday, he was the only one to have ridden an SCX, thus bringing the Japanese giant back to the podium after four years. This time it didn't go well and Chaz Davies thanks him by taking third place. Here the Welshman has won seven times, but had to bow out to Michael Rinaldi who will inherit his place at Aruba.it Ducati in 2021. The succession could not be more symbolic than that.

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Paul Gozzi