A brilliant start from the WorldSBK champion saw him lead into turn one, however, Jonathan Rea was quick to💎 mount a challenge as he attempted to capitalise on a small error for the Yamaha rider. 

Razgatlioglu ran slightly wide coming out of turn eight which allowed Re🏅a to get alongside heading into the chicane, but  with t൩he Kawasaki rider positioned to the outside, Razgatlioglu came out leading.

Rea, who was compromised coming out of the chicane, then lost out to Alex Lowes and series leader Alvaro Bautista, before Iker Lecuon🦩a slithered up the inside of him after the KRT rider got his braking all wrong for ♕the ‘Melbourne Loop’. 

Rea quickly regained third after overtaking team-mate Lowes, who began to lose pace pretty quickly with the top three, however, getting through on Bautist💧a was proving to be much tougher. 

The six-time world champion begaꦑn lining-up a pass coming out of the chicane, only for the rear of his ZX10-RR to come around and nearly throw him overboard. 

After several failed at💯tempts at turns 10 and 11, Rea finally made the move stick at the final corner (Goddards).

Although it appeared as though Rea had more pace tha🍬n Bautista, the Aruba.it Ducati rider was sticking with the home favo🧸urite. 

While Rea set about catching race leader Razgatlioglu, Scott Redding꧃ was quietly putting together🀅 his best race of the year for BMW.

Up to fourth after early moves🀅 on Lowes and Lecuona, the British r🍒ider now held a four tenth advantage over Lowes with 12 laps to go. 

At the front, Rea’s attempts of catching Razgatlioglu were becoming nothing more than hope as th𓃲e Yamaha rider co💃ntinued to pull away. 

With a lead of over 3.5 seconds, Razgatlioglu was in total cont𒈔rol as Bautista began applying pressure to Rea.

T𝔍he championship leader made a move at turn nine, but ran wide in doing so which allowed Rea to regain P2.

A mistake from Rea heading into Goddards, the same corn♈er he previously o𒁏vertook Bautista at, allowed the Spaniard to finally gain second position.

Drama with eight laps to go as Bautista crashes out 

As Bautista began to pull clea💝r of a struggling Rea, the Ducati rider made his first mistake of the season as he crashed at the final corner.

Pushing the front extremely hard, Bautista tried to make the corner despite carrying too much speed and subsequently tucked the front tyre. Bautista was eventually able to get his Panigale V4 R going again before ret🌺urning to pit lane and r🍌etiring. 

With Redding now struggling for rear grip, Lowes started to reel the BMW rider back in for third. And to no surprise Lowes attempted his move heading into the final corner, pulli꧟ng off a lovely overtake to gain the final podium spot. 

An impressive ride from Italian rider Axel Bassani saw him finish as the top Ducati, one place ahead of fꦚactory rider Michael Rinaldi. 

WorldSBK champion Razgatlioglu wins!

In typical Razgatlioglu style, the Turkish star pulled off a sublime stoppie across the line to take his second win of the season💞 and first in a feature-length rac𓄧e.