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Jonathan Rea regains the leadership of Superbikes and Álvaro Bautista achieves his first podium with Honda
Jonathan Rea regains the leadership of Superbikes and Álvaro Bautista achieves his first podium with Honda

Video: Jonathan Rea regains the leadership of Superbikes and Álvaro Bautista achieves his first podium with Honda

Video: Jonathan Rea regains the leadership of Superbikes and Álvaro Bautista achieves his first podium with Honda
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Jonathan Rea has taken very little to regain the leadership of the world Superbikes. The world champion has won at MotorLand with considerable suffering, as he made a gap at the beginning but then a mistake left him at the mercy of Chaz Davies. Rea tempered her nerves and put herself ten points ahead of Scott Redding, fourth.

But even ahead of Rea it can be said that the driver of the day was Álvaro Bautista. The talaverano has given Honda its first podium in Superbikes since 2016, and the most important thing is that he finished only 3.5 seconds behind Rea. The performance of the Honda CBR1000RR-R has been much better in Aragon and Bautista has taken advantage of it.

Honda's first podium in Superbikes since 2016

Sykes Aragon Sbk 2020
Sykes Aragon Sbk 2020

In the Superpole Race the champion did not fail. Jonathan Rea took advantage of the lower asphalt temperature to escape from the beginning and win the race quite comfortable. Behind Redding was second and the podium was completed by Loris Baz. But the big news was Álvaro Bautista's fourth position, his best result since racing with Honda.

At the start of the long race, Rea started first, although Redding managed to maintain second position. Actually, very little change ahead. Bautista also held fourth, although with Toprak Razgatlioglu harassing him. Rea seemed to want to open a hole in the first turns, as the performance of the Ducati Panigale V4 R creates with the laps.

Van Der Mark Aragon Sbk 2020
Van Der Mark Aragon Sbk 2020

Redding was a little nervous about Rea's escape and was sneaking around a curve. He was passed by Michael van der Mark and Bautista, who was on the podium. The champion was taking advantage of all these troubles to go solo. Redding was in trouble. Chaz Davies also happened to him leaving you off the hook.

Bautista passed van der Mark to get third, because Redding from behind was starting to wake up. Davies was pushing hard to regain Rea's lead, which was 1.5 seconds. The best part was that Bautista seemed able to keep up with Davies and go for the win.

Bautista Aragon Sbk 2020
Bautista Aragon Sbk 2020

But it seemed that Rea was the fastest. The differences remained stagnant and even increased a little. Bautista and Davies were on the run in the fight for second place, while Michael Ruben Rinaldi also reached the slipstream of Redding and van der Mark's Yamaha.

Redding put dirt in the middle. It happened to the Yamaha and it escaped a little bit in that fourth position that would allow it to minimize damage. Davies kept pushing to hunt down Rea, with a comeback similar to Saturday's, but this time Kawasaki's seemed to have it under control. AND tremendous Xavi Forés, who placed seventh, in front of Razgatlioglu.

Davies Aragon Sbk 2020
Davies Aragon Sbk 2020

But then Rea's mistake was coming. The Kawasaki was long and Davies surpassed him. They were close together, and with Bautista very close. However, the champion seemed stronger, he reopened a gap that was quite small but enough to avoid the attacks of the Ducati Panigale V4 R on the straight.

AND victory for Jonathan Rea. The champion recovers the leadership of the world championship ahead of Davies and Álvaro Bautista, who achieved Honda's first podium in four years. Redding finished fourth and minimized the damage, while Xavi Forés finished in eleventh position, but fighting to the end with official bikes.

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