Phillip Island World Superbike Race (1) Results: Alvaro Bautista beats Jonathan Rea to first victory of 2023

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista gets his𒊎 World Superbike title defence off to the perfect start after dominating Race 1 in wet conditions.
After rain threatened to fall during Superpole, Race 1 eventually got underway in full wet conditions as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu started from pole.
As the lights went out it was Bautista who made the best start as he immediately took the lead from ꦇthe Yamaha rider.
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Following Bautista through was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jonathan Rea before the K🧔awasaki rider made his move for the lead at turn 🅠one.
Contact was made between Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Lowes, as the former was struggling to get up to pace.
Turn four w🐈as the scene of contact between both riders as Razgatlioglu closed the door on Lowes on corner exit.ಌ
There was an early crash for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Van Der Mark ꦍas the BMW rider ꦍsuffered a violent highside on lap two.
Starting to find his feet in the tricky conditions, Razgatlioglu took back third spot♒ from Lowes at the start of lap five after out-braking the British rider on the ruꦐn to turn one.
2023 World Superbike Phillip Island, Australia - Race (1) Results | ||||
Pos | Rider | Nat | Team | Time |
1 | Alvaro Bautista | SPA | Aruba.It Racing Ducati | 22 Laps |
2 | Jonathan Rea | GBR | Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK | +3.471s |
3 | Toprak Razgatlioglu | TUR | PATA Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK | +6.168s |
4 | Andrea Locatelli | ITA | PATA Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK | +16.789s |
5 | Axel Bassani | ITA | Motocorsa Ducati | +20.918s |
6 | Iker Lecuona | SPA | Team HRC WorldSBK | +27.015s |
7 | Danilo Petrucci | ITA | Barni Spark Ducati Team | +30.383s |
8 | Xavi Vierge | SPA | Team HRC WorldSBK | +30.625s |
9 | Scott Redding | GBR | BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team | +37.447s |
10 | Garrett Gerloff | USA | Bonovo Action BMW | +42.591s |
11 | Philipp Oettl | GER | GoEleven Ducati | +44.142s |
12 | Remy Gardner | AUS | GRT Yamaha | +48.833s |
13 | Dominique Aegerter | SWI | GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team | +51.617s |
14 | Michael Rinaldi | ITA | Aruba.It Racing Ducati | +55.010s |
15 | Hafizh Syahrin | MAL | MIE Honda Racing | +1'15.223s |
16 | Eric Granado | BRA | MIE Honda Racing | +1'17.459s |
17 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | ITA | GMT94 Yamaha | +1'20.226s |
18 | Loris Baz | FRA | Bonovo Action BMW | +1 Lap |
19 | Tom Sykes | GBR | Puccetti Kawasaki | DNF |
20 | Alex Lowes | GBR | Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK | DNF |
21 | Oliver Konig | CZE | Orelac Racing Kawasaki | DNF |
22 | Michael Van Der Mark | NED | BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team | DNF |
After extending his lead to 1.6 seconds, Rea started to lose ground as Bautista set his fastest lap of the race on lap f💯ive.
Bautista took six tenths out of Rea in the opening few sectors of the lap before coming across th👍e start-finish line 0.7s down.&𒐪nbsp;
With Bautista in touching distance of the race lead, Razgatlioglu was the rider to watch as he began closꦯing in on the top two by over half a second.
Bautista then caught Re🍨a by surprise as he took the race lead with a move at ‘Stoner corner’ on lap ten.
Now in the lead and pushing on the pace, Bautista suffered a big moment at turn eight as he nearly came unstuck in the same way as Van Der Mark. ꦿ;
Following his close moment, Bautista managed to settle i﷽nto his rhythm once again as he started extending his leadꦆ to nearly a second.
With eight laps to go♍ there was a change for P4 as Lowes crashed out of the race at turn two.
Af൩ter seeing Bautista suffer a moment a few laps ago, Rꩲea then followed suit as the rear of his ZX-10RR came around on the exit of turn ten.
Rea managed to avoid a crash although he lost🐻 a few tenths which eliminated him from contention.
Remaining World Superbike weekend Schedule (UK time)
Sunday
Warm-up - 23:30-23:45
Superpole Race - 02:00
Race 2 - 05:00