World Superbike Magny-Cours, France - Race Results (2)

Results from race two, round eight of the World Superbike Championship at Magny-Cours, France.
Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea, French WorldSBK Superpole race, 5 September 2021
Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea, French WorldSBK Superpole race, 5 September 2021
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An untoucha🍸ble Toprak Razgatliolgu complet🍸ed his first ever WorldSBK clean-sweep weekend at Magny-Cours.

WorldSBK Magny-Cours, France - Race Results (2)
PosRiderNatTeamTime
1Toprak RazgatliogluTURPATA Yamaha21 Laps
2Jonathan ReaGBRKawasaki Racing Team+2.908s
3Scott ReddingGBRAruba.It Ducati+8.406s
4Andrea LocatelliITAPATA Yamaha+10.329s
5Chaz DaviesGBRGoEleven Ducati+10.734s
6Alvaro BautistaSPATeam HRC+11.467s
7Michael RinaldiITAAruba.It Ducati+13.901s
8Michael Van Der MarkNEDMotorrad BMW WorldSBK Team+15.640s
9Garrett GerloffUSAGRT Yamaha+16.254s
10Tom SykesGBRMotorrad BMW WorldSBK Team+20.911s
11Axel BassaniITAMotocorsa Ducati+39.410s
12Christophe PonssonFRAGil Yamaha+42.808s
13Lucas MahiasFRAKawasaki Puccetti+43.057s
14Kohta NozaneJPNGRT Yamaha+44.106s
15Tito RabatSPABarni Ducati+48.202s
16Jonas FolgerGERBenovo BMW+49.557s
17Leandro MercadoARGMIE Honda Racing+51.981s
18Loris CressonBELPedercini Kawasaki+1:07.692s
19Leon HaslamGBRTeam HRCDNF
20Alex LowesGBRKawasaki Racing TeamDNF

After making a brilliant start and challenging both Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea during the opening few corners, Alex L🔯owes crashed on lap two - his second fall of the weekend. 

Razgatlioglu and Rea then began a consisten♏t run of laps where fierce ov💝ertakes were being made. Each time Razgatlioglu got past, Rea was able to snap straight back and take over the lead.

But with 11 laps to go, Razgatlioglu finally made a move stick for more thওan a few corners at turn five. 

There was a sca🐟ry moment on lap six as Andrea Locatelli and Michael Van Der Mark made contact on the start-finish straight. Van Der Mark’s rear tyre created a huge puff of smoke after veering towards the pit wall.

After holding onto the front𒐪 two for several laps, Scott Redding began to lose ground in third place - a position he kept unti💎l the end. 

Things then began to settle down between Razgatlioglu and Rea, however, the gap r🅰emained 𒀰small - less than three tenths as they approached the final five laps.

But just as Rea looked to build up for another move, the six-time world💙 champion made mistakes at turn five and eight. 

With three laps to go, Razgatlioglu extended the gap to over a second. It was a lead that qu♎ickly grew to over three seconds by the race’s end, a꧟s Razgatlioglu claimed win #9 of the year.

Superpole Race

Toprak Razgatlioglu won a stunning WorldSBK Superpole race at Magny-Cours aftꩲer getting the bet💛ter of Jonathan Rea on the final lap.

After attempting to💛 take the lead from Rea at turn five on th🎀e opening lap, Razgatlioglu made the same move stick on lap two - Yamaha rider set a new race lap record on the same lap.

Even though Razgatlioglu remained on lap record pace after that, Re🔥a was able to stay with the Turkish ride💃r, while Alex Lowes regained third from Andrea Locatelli. 

As was the case in race one, Leon Haslam led a big group behind the Kawasaki and Yamah🎶a riders.&nဣbsp;

However, Haslam slowly went backwards as Michael Van Der Mark, Scott Redding and Alvaro Bautista all got t🔯hrough. 

Redding then got ahead of his future BMW team-mate for fifth at the start of lap six.🅺 At the front, Razgatlioglu began to edge away from Rea with three laps to go.

Haslam got back past team-mate Bautista for seventh, while Chaz Dav🐟ies closed in on both Honda riders. 

What looked like a certain win for Razgatlioglu soon became anything but that on the final lap, as Rea made a stunning move in turn 12 after recovering the gap, however, Razgatlioglu re🦄sponded into turn 15 and eventually took win #2 of the weekend.

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