Alvaro Bautista made a brilliant start fro♉m the head of the fourth row as he climbed up to fifth on lap one.

Leading away from pole, Toprak Razgatlioglu immediately broke clear☂ of Andrea Iannone and Nicolo Bulega.

But Bautista's progress stopped quickly as he began losing touch🍌 with the Ducatis of Iannone, Bulega and Danilo Petrucci, instead coming under attack from Remy Gardner.

After two previous overtake attempts, Gardner eventually got th🥃rough on Baut🍷ista for fifth spot. 

Bautista then immediately lost another position to Alex Low🅺es, before regaining sixth on the following lap on the ruꦦn to turn one. 

With 16 laps to go there was a change for sec🎶ond as Bulega made his way through on Iannone, who then fell into the clutches of Petrucci. 

With Bulega slowly edging clear, Pet🦂rucci made his way trough for third with a late-braking move, w✤hich resulted in Iannone having to pick up his Panigale V4 R. 

Petrucci the🐼n quickly closed the gap to Bulega as he swopped through on lap ten. 

Iannone then forced his way through on the struggling Bulega, which allo💞wed Gardner and a charging Bautista to close in.&n൲bsp;

Bulega then dropped behind bo♎th Gardner and Bautista, with ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthe latter lapping second-fastest behind Razgatlioglu who was well clear of the riders behind. 

Battling with Bulega for sixth, Alex Lowes cr𝓰ashed at turn two after losing the front-end of 𝓀his Kawasaki machine. 

Despite a late charge, Iannone could not overhaul Petrucci who secured hi🤪s 🧸best result in WorldSBK.