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Toprak Razgatlioglu wins his second race with Yamaha and Jonathan Rea comes back to be Superbike champion
Toprak Razgatlioglu wins his second race with Yamaha and Jonathan Rea comes back to be Superbike champion

Video: Toprak Razgatlioglu wins his second race with Yamaha and Jonathan Rea comes back to be Superbike champion

Video: Toprak Razgatlioglu wins his second race with Yamaha and Jonathan Rea comes back to be Superbike champion
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Toprak Razgatlioglu has won his second Superbike race in the 2020 season. The Turk took advantage of the mistakes of Jonathan Rea and Scott Redding during qualifying to make his first pole with Yamaha and claim the solo victory. The Iwata brand bikes have been far superior in Estoril.

But The great news is that Jonathan Rea has been proclaimed world champion for the sixth time in a row. The Kawasaki rider made a spectacular comeback in the opening laps and then paid for it in the final part of the race, but it was enough to grab the necessary points, and the Ducati also left Scott Redding down.

The Ducati Panigale V4 R dumped Redding mid-race and sentenced Rea's title

Redding Estoril Sbk 2020
Redding Estoril Sbk 2020

The classification was one of the strangest of the year, with Scott Redding and Jonathan Rea crashing and wrecking their bikes. The one from Ducati came out last and the champion fifteenth, so he had everything to face to seal the crown. It was enough for him to be thirteenth or if Redding didn't win. Toprak Razgatlioglu started from pole.

At the start the Turk took the lead while Rea made a formidable start to eighth after only one cornering.. Redding also placed 15th, but the champion's comeback was formidable. Already reaching the group of those who were prowling the podium, although Razgatlioglu opened a gap with Garrett Gerloff behind.

Haslam Bautista Estoril Sbk 2020
Haslam Bautista Estoril Sbk 2020

In a formidable maneuver, Rea passed Lowes and Baz with one stroke.. At the end of the second lap he was already fourth, just shy of the podium. And it didn't take long to catch up, because it also happened to Michael Ruben Rinaldi. I only had the two Yamaha ahead of me, although they were somewhat off the track. And Redding was coming thirteenth.

There the comeback seemed to stabilize, even Michael van der Mark was sticking to Rea's slipstream. The Yamas were very strong in Estoril. And then came the ultimate disaster. Scott Redding's Ducati Panigale V4 R stopped. Rea was mathematically world champion of Superbikes for the sixth time.

Sykes Estoril Sbk 2020
Sykes Estoril Sbk 2020

Behind Rea van der Mark, who had been the fastest driver on the track, fell. The two had already captured Gerloff when the Dutchman missed. Now the danger of Rea was called Chaz Davies, who had also reached his wheel, so the already sixteen world champion rushed to overtake Gerloff.

Davies also noticed the American and went for Rea, to start a three-way fight for second place on the podium. Razgatlioglu was already in his world. With ten laps to go Davies passed Rea, and Gerloff did too. The Kawasaki's tires could be paying for the initial effort.

Rea Estoril Sbk 2020
Rea Estoril Sbk 2020

Davies had opened some gap while the battle remained between Gerloff and Rea to close the podium, although the American seemed to have more tires. The emotion remained in the battle to be fifth, in which Álvaro Bautista was with Alex Lowes and Leon Haslam. Rinaldi was also behind them.

Finally victory for Razgatlioglu, the second of the season for him, ahead of Davies which is second and Gerloff completes the drawer. But most importantly, the world title falls on Jonathan Rea's side, the sixth in a row. Álvaro Bautista ended up falling in the last meters and Xavi Forés eighth.

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