WSBK Superbike San Juan Race 1: Razgatlıoğlu persists and signs

The Turkish driver once again won during the Superpole Race, countering the attacks of a very enterprising Scott Redding. Jonathan Rea, for his part, loses five new points in the championship after his third place at the finish.

A few dozen minutes after a warm-up to warm up, the Superbike got down to business with the Superpole Race. As is often the case, this event, reduced to ten laps in length, introduced in 2019 and which awards points to the first nine classified (and thus determines the hierarchy of the first three rows of the Race 2 grid) provided a good dose of show to the spectators.

At the start, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu once again took the best start to achieve the holeshot at the first corner, just ahead of pole sitter Scott Redding. The latter nevertheless negotiated the first corner much better than he had done yesterday, managing to control his Ducati to stay in second position at the last minute ahead of Jonathan Rea.

The Englishman subsequently gave Razgatlıoğlu a hard time, the two leaders quite far behind Rea who was once again unable to maintain the pace on the San Juan Villicum circuit.

Summary of the results of the 2019 edition:

WSBK Superbike San Juan	October 2019	October 2021
FP1	1'45.191 Álvaro Bautista	1'38.524 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu
FP2	1'43.614 Álvaro Bautista	1'37.872 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu
FP3	1'39.651 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu	1'37.239 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu
Super poles	1'40.771 Álvaro Bautista	1'37.617 Scott Redding
Race 1	Bautista, Rea, Razgatlıoğlu	Razgatlıoğlu, Rea, Rinaldi
Warm up	1'37.784 Jonathan Rea	1'37.719 Garrett Gerloff
Superpole race	Rea, Bautista, Razgatlıoğlu	Razgatlıoğlu, Redding, Rea
Race 2	Rea, Davies, Razgatlıoğlu
All time lap record	1'37.784 Jonathan Rea	1'37.239 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu

Valorous Redding second

Redding thus launched the big attack, stringing together the best laps in the race to remain clinging to the wheel of his Turkish opponent without however managing to find the opening, to finally miss out on victory by less than half a second.

The former MotoGP rider applied constant pressure on his Yamaha counterpart, even going inside on the last lap without managing to stay in the lead because he was carried away in his momentum off the line.

 

 

Behind Razgatlıoğlu and Redding, Rea completed this Superpole Race alone in third place, ahead of Axel Bassani, author of a very good performance. The Transalpine rider managed to get rid of Alex Lowes on the third lap and maintain his fourth place until the checkered flag.

He thus gains a few more points against Garrett Gerloff in the fight for the title of best independent driver, the American who could not do better than seventh, behind Michael van der Mark and Andrea Locatelli.

 

Rinaldi in the hard

We then find in eighth place Michael Ruben Rinaldi. We once thought that the Italian was going to repeat his good performance from the day before and perhaps take a place on the podium, but his pace finally failed at the end of the course and he had to be content with a result in- below his expectations ahead of Lowes, while Leon Haslam completes the top 10.

Álvaro Bautista finished in 11th place, ahead of Tito Rabat and Chaz Davies, while Kohta Nozane and Eugene Laverty completed the top 15, ahead of the highest ranked regional of the stage, Leandro Mercado. Christophe Ponsson, for his part, finished again in 19th position.

 

Superbike San Juan – Race 1:

Classification credit: WorldSBK.com