WSBK Supersport Jerez Race: 10/10 for Aegerter!

The Swiss driver won his tenth victory this season at Jerez, after a solo race following a very good start. He is accompanied on the podium by Philipp Öttl and Niki Tuuli.

There was no room for debate during the only event contested this weekend in the Supersport category. Indeed, starting from second place on the grid, Dominique Aegerter made the holeshot when the lights went out and then inexorably escaped to the front of the race.

The Swiss was undoubtedly hungry for victory, after coming very close to the MotoE title last week, winning on track only to be finally stripped of his crown for a riding deemed too rough by the Race Direction against his rival Jordi Torres.

A frustrating outcome that the leader of the Supersport championship undoubtedly wanted to compensate for this weekend, brilliantly it must be admitted this Sunday. Aegerter thus won with a margin of almost ten seconds over the man who had taken pole position and is still chasing his first success this season, Philipp Öttl.

 

Aegerter, a good start and then gone!

The German was unable to do anything at the start, but he was able to lead a solid race to reach the finish in second position, regaining valuable points in the general classification against his opponent Manuel Gonzalez, who also came close to a place on the podium.

The Spaniard was finally beaten by Niki Tuuli, in very good form in Andalusia this weekend, and even had to counter the comeback of Federico Caricasulo at the end of the event. Indeed the Italian, who had a good qualifying session yesterday punctuated by a third place on the grid, had a nightmarish start to the race and had no other choice but to fight to get back up the peloton.

With a certain success it must be admitted, the Transalpine completing the event in fifth place after several overtaking maneuvers. He is ahead of Can Öncü and Raffaele de Rosa at the finish, while you have to go down to eighth place to find any trace of Steven Odendaal.

 

Odendaal loses big again

The latter suffered again in the race this Sunday. Starting from seventh place on the grid, he completely missed the last corner on the second lap, dropping to ninth place after a good start which had seen him in fourth position. Odendaal still stood out at the very end of the race by facing rookie Stefano Manzi and the 2019 world champion in the category, Randy Krummenacher, for eighth place.

 

 

The three men exchanged positions on multiple occasions, but it was ultimately the South African who had the last word, while Krummenacher made a mistake in the last loop, leaving the benefit of tenth at the same time. place for Jules Cluzel.

But it is not the eight points awarded by eighth place that will satisfy Odendaal, who is now 62 points behind Aegerter. A chasm, with only three rounds remaining in the category between now and the end of the season.

 

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Classification credit: WorldSBK.com