WSBK Superbike Indonesia Timetable: it's back to Mandalika where Alvaro Bautista will already have to be stopped

The World Superbike, and also that of Supersport, have barely recovered from the double impact in Australia when a new contest is taking shape for this weekend in Indonesia. On the Mandalika route discovered last year, the protagonists of the motorcycle speed categories reserved for machines from the series will have only one idea in mind: stopping the red wave which buried everything on Phillip Island. Alvaro Bautista like Nicolo Bulega made a splash at the start, already putting the competition in an urgent need to react so as not to let the Panigale, V4 or V2 slip away...

From the Australian summer, the drivers and the world teams Superbike et Supersport will pass to the tropical heat which will not fail to crush the island of Lombok in Indonesia. But showers will also be expected since the rainy season is underway in these latitudes. The last visit to the paddock was not so long ago since it was in Mandalika that the 2022 version of Superbike closed its hostilities in November. A boon for Toprak Razgatlioglu certainly victorious with his Yamaha but who could do nothing to prevent the coronation from Baptist on his Ducati.

In Indonesia, we are waiting for the Ducati

The same Baptist which crushed the Australian battlefield last weekend, so Indonesia will be a confirmation test, or not, of the new level of the Panigale V4R. It will be the same for its sister V2 in Supersport where, again, Yamaha will try to respond. We will also await a reaction from Jonathan Rhea on his Kawasaki in WSBK while lecuona will be keen to give it a try Honda with whom he begins to find interesting affinities.

We will also not fail to follow the trio of gifted beginners composed of Petrucci, Aegerter et Gardner. And we will observe the atmosphere at BMW, tense since the disappointment of Phillip Island. Here are the times so you don't miss anything from the start: