WSBK Superbike Estoril Race 2: Chaz Davies says goodbye with victory, Kawasaki saves manufacturers' standings

De Paul Gozzi / Corsedimoto.com

Chaz Davies leaves the Ducati factory dominating the last race. Jonathan Rea falls, Kawasaki saves the constructors' championship thanks to privateer Xavi Fores.

Ducati kicked him out and Chaz Davies said goodbye as he won. The Superbike championship ends 2020 sadly, with Ducati mechanics in tears at the Welsh rider's farewell. In one fell swoop, Chaz put everyone in order: Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, who had dominated both race 1 and the Superpole race in the morning, then his teammate Scott Redding and finally the six-time champion Jonathan Rea, who fell while trying to get rid of the Turk and pounce on the Welsh fugitive. He wanted the hundredth victory, but with the second mistake of the season, the Cannibal put the Kawasaki manufacturers' world championship in jeopardy. Even an increasingly evanescent Alex Lowes got lost on the way, once again due to a fall, and Akashi's mark was saved, by a single point, with the providential contribution of privateer Xavi Fores. Which Jonathan Rea thanked on his knees along the track, in front of the Kawasaki staff who had prepared the little party. Imagine what a joke that would have been...

Kawasaki for the sixth time manufacturers' world champion 

This is the sixth consecutive time that Kawasaki has won the manufacturers' title. Since the arrival of Jonathan Rea, the Japanese have left nothing to their opponents. Kawasaki, before getting its hands on the Northern Irishman, had won the drivers' title twice: in 1993 with the American Scott Russell and in 2013 with the Briton Tom Sykes. But in these seasons, there was no consecration among the Manufacturers. Now, driven by the talent of Jonathan Rea, Kawasaki wins everything.

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Paul Gozzi