Jonathan Rea claims a sensational first World Superbike💛 win of 2022 after getting the better of Alvaro Bautista in the final corner. 

Starting from pole for the first time in Aragon - fifth pole position of his career - Toprak Razgatlioglu held off Alvaro Bautista who momentarily got down the inside of the reigning wor🔴ld champion. 

Bautista, who had clear visions of taking the lead early, was instead rel🍒egated𝐆 to third as Jonathan Rea came through at turn three.

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Fastest over the weekend with regards to race pace, ൲Rea quickly turned second into first after getting past Razgatlioglu at🌸 turn seven. 

Lap two and Razgatlioglu responded by re💧gaining the lead at turn two, but unwilling to give his big rival any advantage, Rea produced a late-braking move heading into turn 12 to lead once mo🦂re.

Seventh to begin race one, Iker Lecuona got a great start as he led the next group in fifth. B💖ut as the Honda rider struggled to keep p♔ace with the leading quartet, Alex Lowes instead came through on the rookie. 

Lap five, and yes you guessed it, the lead changed again as Razgatliogl💎u muscled his way through on Rea at turn one. Bautista was keeping a close eye on the top two as team-mate Michael Rinaldi began to drop back.

Three⛎ abreast anyone… Bautista and Rea got a lovely run out of the final corner as the leading trio all attempted to lead into turn one. 

After initially getting th🐼e lead, Rea was demoted to second by Bautista at turn seven. All this resulted in Rinaldi closing back in. 

As Rea nearly ran off-track, team-mate Lowes was down in the gravel followin💃g a first crash of the season for the B🍬rit. 

Keeping the same plan as the beginning of the race, Rea attempted to snap back at Bautista at every possible opportunity, however, the Ducati rider continued to hꦡold strong out 💦front. 

As he ♛looked to clear off, Bautista had a big moment on the exit of turn 16 after nearly 🐟suffering a highside.

The mistake allowed Rea to close up before getting through at turn one. Bautista then lost further time after running wide in sector two, but after composing 🍬himself, the former MotoGP rider closed back in on Rea.

Rea and B𒆙autista exchanged the lead once again at turn 16, while Razgatlioglu was unable𒆙 to get involved. 

The top two began to break clear of the world champion with five laps to go as Razgatlioglu wasꦿ seeming🐓ly struggling for front-end grip. 

A World Superbike winner this time last year, Redding claimed one point in a disastrous debut. 

Redding, who started 16th, was dropped to𓆉 P19 following a poor start, and although he event𓂃ually made his way into the points (15th), that’s as far as his progress went. 

The former Ducati rider and series runner-up was last of the four BMW riders, which includes playing second best to stand-in rider Ilya Mychalchyk, who was e🌟ighth. 

It lo𓄧oks like the road to achie🅷ving success with BMW is going to be a long and hard one for Redding, who has lacked pace all weekend, not to mention all pre-season. 

Final corner overtake wins it for Rea!

Back🦩 at the front, Bautista regained the lead along the back straight before Rea produced a favourite move of his at turn seven. 

The final position change looked to have come with three laps to go as Rea pushed on during the final two laps.&nbsꦜp;

However, Bautista responded on the final lap as he closed a six tenth lead down to four heading onto the back-straight.&n💮bsp;

On said straight, and Bautista used his incredible top speed to get alongside the six-time world champion heading into turn 16. But not ofr the first time, Rea delivered a l💦ovely switchback to come across the line first.

Official Aragon WorldSBK Records 

Fastest Lap - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha 1m 48.267s. 

Most Wins - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki (8) 

2021 Aragon WorldSBK Race Winners 

Race 1 - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki

Superpole Race - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki

Race 2 - Scott Redding GBR Ducati 

The opening race day of the 2022 World Superbike campaign g💫ot underway in spectacular fashion as Razgatlioglu secured a new a🙈ll-time Aragon lap record. 

The Turkish rider came across the line with a time of 1:48.267s which was +0.006s quicker than Bautista, who also went undern🦩eath the previous record, held by Rea. 

Sunday Schedule - 2022 Aragon WorldSBK

08:00-08:15 - WorldSBK Warm-up (UK)

10:00 - WorldSBK Superpole Race (UK) 

13:00 - WorldSBK Race 2 (UK)