Winner of the third race of the weekend,✨ Sunday got off to the worst possible start for Ducati as Bautista and Rinaldi came to blows in the Superpole Ra🔴ce.

Bautista ran into the ba🌟ck of Rinaldi at turn five after Razg꧑atlioglu managed to position his Yamaha on the inside of turn five.

• Magny-Cours World Superbike Race (2) results♏: Bautista returns to form 
• Magny-Cours World Superbike Superpole Race results: Bautista takes out Rin♈aldi

With Rinaldi having to pick up ꩲhis Panigale V4 R, Bautista, who was also fancying a move for the lead, hit the reaꦍr of his teammate which led to Rinaldi crashing out.

Summing up his weekend, Bautista said this after Race 2: "I’m so happy to end the weekend like this, especi🔜ally because I didn’t start so wꩲell being ill on Thursday. 

"I was recovering through the wee🌳kend and today I feel almost 100% with my energy. Technically it has also been a weekend of less to more and even though our pace from Friday was good, yesterday we had an issue with the engine. 

"Looking at the pace after the race, I think we could ha🐼ve fought for the win yesterday. In the Superpole Race it was exciting and ev🐼erybody used the SC2 tyre.

"I have to say that it worked really w🍒ell and Pirelli did a really good job with the new SCQ tyre for the race. It has a lot of perওformance and you have the durability to do ten laps without problem. 

"We had a really good battle with Toprak and my teammat🍬e Michael. But in turn five we had an incident because we all arrived together, and with the slipstream I could not stop the bike. 

"The slipstream absorbed me and I tried to avoid the imp♛act. 

"Toprak we𒆙nt to the inside and Michael had to pick up the bike and I found him in the middle of the way. Sorry for Michael because he was really strong and could fight for the win."

Despite a red flag seeing him lose his advantage at the start of Race 2, Bautista quickly set about dominating the rema♚ining 17 laps when it got back underway.

The winner by over five seconds from Razgatlioglu, Bautista was in a leꦫague of his own as he restored a near 60 p🌠oint lead in the standings. 

"Race 2 with this condition was difficult but was similarꦅ to yesterday and I knew the feeling with the bike," added the Aruba.i🥀t Ducati rider. 

"I tried to do a good start but after five laps the race was stopped an﷽d it was difficult because in that moment I really felt good with the bike and was riding really well. 

"I tꦬried to no🅺t go away from that feeling. It didn’t matter if the race stopped I just wanted to have the feeling again. 

"The second s꧅tart I felt really good with the bike and could push from the beginning. In the end I was alone and kept pushing because I enjoyed sliding the bike on the entry to the cor꧟ner."