Bautista secures WorldSBK title regardless of Razgatlioglu’s Mandalika hat-trick
A 2nd place in Race 2 allowed Bautista to grow to be the 2022 World Champion, delivering Ducati their first title since 2011
Race 2 Highlights – WorldSBK
P1 – Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK)
Razgatlioglu gained three races out of three in Mandalika. He took the benefit over Bautista to say the win with a 1.230s benefit over the newly topped WorldSBK Champion.
He stays second within the Championship standings with 462 factors.
“For me it’s been an unbelievable weekend, in a Muslim nation. Three wins… This can be a excellent weekend for me, I’m actually glad. Congratulations to Bautista and Ducati. It was a extremely good season as a result of we’re preventing nearly each race. We misplaced the Championship, however I attempted my greatest. I gained thrice, and that is constructive for me. Now we have a variety of respect. We’re preventing however exterior the monitor, we’re speaking to him like buddies. I’m very glad for him to take the Championship this yr, and likewise for him to journey the Ducati a few years later. It’s an excellent day for him. I keep in mind it for me final yr. I noticed Alvaro within the gold leathers and I’m wanting once more as a result of it was like my go well with, very comparable! Congratulations once more, I believe right this moment is a Ducati day.”
P2 – Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati)
Bautista was topped WorldSBK Champion with 533 factors after his second place in Race 2.
“It’s unimaginable, I’m so glad. It’s a dream come true, particularly after the final two years and all of the difficulties. I need to say due to everybody who trusted me, to offer me this opportunity to battle for good locations and we obtained the Championship on the first time making an attempt. In the present day was the primary time I felt a bit nervous or confused, however it was in Race 2 on the grid earlier than the beginning. I attempted to handle the feelings and after I was in first, I used to be making a variety of errors as a result of I had too many ideas in my head! I simply most well-liked to say second behind Toprak, however he was very robust, so I might simply comply with him. So glad.”
P3 – Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Crew WorldSBK)
Battling in entrance within the early phases of the race, Rea completed in third place in Race 2. He crossed the end line 2.825s behind Razgatlioglu.
He stands in third place within the standings with 434 factors.
“Sunday has been actually constructive. Like I stated yesterday, I used to be fairly content material and glad with being on the rostrum. We have been fairly removed from the race win. In the present day we have been in a position to actually shut that hole. I might battle with Toprak for the Superpole Race. The rhythm was extremely quick. So, I’m glad to be P2 there. In Race 2 right this moment I felt one thing in the midst of the race. I couldn’t go, I used to be catching the fellows on the entrance, and I felt like this may very well be good however once more, final laps I simply actually struggled to get one of the best from my bike. Issues have been transferring round somewhat bit. I simply needed to shut the hole. My confidence was dropping as a result of I used to be using utterly on the restrict. Happy, as I’ve stated we’ve made a great step. I need to thank my workforce for making a great step from yesterday.”
P4 – Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK)
After claiming his second podium of the season within the Tissot Superpole Race, Locatelli completed in fourth place in Race 2.
He stands in fifth place within the Championship standings.
“I’m actually glad about right this moment as a result of in the long run, after yesterday, we understood so much. We ready very actually for Sunday. Then, this morning it was actually vital to attempt to push within the Tissot Superpole Race. However I believed I might do it, so I trusted myself and I attempted to offer the utmost. Then, we began once more from P3, so it was vital. It was a extremely good Race 2. We fought so much with Alex. It was very nice. It’s an important weekend for me and it’s been constructive. Now now we have the final spherical to strive once more to push. I believe I need to attempt to get some podiums as a result of it’s one in every of my favorite tracks. I’ve a variety of motivation to complete the season.”
P5 – Axel Bassani (Motocorsa Racing)
Bassani was fifth in Race 2, ending 8.205s behind the winner.
He was topped Finest Impartial rider within the Tissot Superpole Race. He stands in seventh place within the Championship standings with 230 factors after Race 2.
“Lastly, I gained the Impartial Riders’ Championship. I’m actually glad. In the present day, we made so much a extremely good steps with the bike. Yesterday, I actually couldn’t journey like I needed. However right this moment I felt good with the bike, I might stick with the highest three guys. I solely need to benefit from the second. It’s actually scorching right here so it’s troublesome to have a standard race. You need to handle your self bodily, to remain centered on the race. I felt on hearth. However anyway, we completed the race, we did our job!”
P6 – Scott Redding (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK)
Redding completed in fifth place in each the Tissot Superpole Race and Race 2. He was the main BMW rider.
He’s eighth within the Championship standings.
“The weekend was troublesome with the monitor situations. It was clearly exhausting for us to set the bike up as a result of the monitor was altering on a regular basis. In the present day was higher for me. Within the Superpole Race, I felt good with the bike and I used to be in a position to get a great consequence. And in the primary race this afternoon, I felt fairly good, however I went off monitor once more, making an attempt to make an overtake and I misplaced the entrance group. I had a robust tempo on the finish of the race, I used to be catching, I handed two or three guys. The tempo was there however I made one other mistake. I used to be indignant at myself for that as a result of the tempo was sufficient for the fourth place right this moment so I might have battled with them. However we hold pushing, we hold making an attempt and are wanting ahead to the following race in Phillip Island.”
The the Grand Ridge Brewery Australian Spherical will happen from the 18th to the twentieth of November at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.
WorldSBK Outcomes Race 2
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK)
2. Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +1.230s
3. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Crew WorldSBK) +2.825s
4. Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) +7.595s
5. Axel Bassani (Motocorsa Racing) +8.205s
6. Scott Redding (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Crew) +12.478s
Championship standings (after Race 2 – Spherical 11)
1. Alvaro Bautista (ESP) Ducati (553 factors)
2. Toprak Razgatlioglu (TUR) Yamaha (487 factors)
3. Jonathan Rea (GBR) Kawasaki (450 factors)
WorldSBK Outcomes Tissot Superpole Race
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK)
2. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Crew WorldSBK) +0.586s
3. Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) +1.235s
Newly topped WorldSSP Champion Aegerter wins red-flagged Race 2
4 completely different producers take the highest 4 spots in Race 2
Race 2 Highlights – WorldSSP
P1 – Dominique Aegerter (Ten Kate Racing Crew)
After dropping again to ninth within the early phases of the race, the brand new Champion proved dominant once more preventing again to say his sixteenth victory of the season.
“It was a scorching race. The situations have been extremely popular, we had 66 levels of asphalt temperature. The humidity was actually excessive. We tried to push actually exhausting as a result of right this moment we had much less strain as we gained the Championship yesterday. We went early to mattress to be prepared for right this moment. The Ten Kate Racing Yamaha workforce did an incredible job. We tried one thing completely different this morning and so they improved the bike. I hope Tuuli is okay, it’s unhappy he couldn’t journey till the chequered flag. We tried to go full fuel and obtain this. What we had this yr is wonderful. We gained 16 races, 18 podiums … with out my workforce, the technical assist, the household, buddies and the sponsors, we couldn’t have achieved this job and gained the Championship with three races to go. However we attempt to take pleasure in tonight, have a great celebration with everybody and likewise the workforce deserves this get together. Then we’ll go to Phillip Island to shut the WorldSSP season in a great way!”
P2 – Stefano Manzi (Dynavolt Triumph)
Manzi took second place in Race 2 claiming his fifth podium of the season.
He’s fifth within the standings with 207 factors.
“It was a great race as a result of we discovered one thing this morning within the Heat Up with the workforce. They labored very nicely, and I used to be in a position to be sooner than yesterday. In the present day the bike was higher, and I might go quick and recuperate some positions. Then it was an excellent battle with Dominique. I noticed he was going alone, and it was unfortunate that the race was stopped with six laps to go. Nevertheless it’s okay to complete in second place.”
P3 – Can Oncu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing)
Oncu was third as he was promoted to a podium place following Tuuli’s crash on Lap 13.
He stays third within the Championship standings with a 38-point benefit over Bulega.
“Similar as yesterday, we end third so a double podium is all the time good. And in Indonesia it’s all the time particular. I need to do my greatest to win, and Kenan all the time tells me I can. I didn’t have the tyre to win so I couldn’t make it right here, however I hope I can do it in Australia. My bike is ideal, the issue is barely me. I’ve to enhance myself. We simply have to focus to the following race in Australia.”
Raffaele De Rosa (Orelac Racing VerdNatura WorldSSP) completed in fourth place 3.377s behind Oncu. De Rosa’s fourth place ensured 4 completely different producers have been within the prime 4 in Race 2. Yari Montella (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) was fifth adopted by Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Crew) in sixth place 0.082s down on Montella.
Second within the Championship standings, Lorenzo Baldassarri (Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha Crew) completed in ninth place.
To notice:
The race was crimson flagged with six laps to go following an incident at Flip 1 involving Niki Tuuli (MV Agusta Reparto Corse). The Finnish rider was in a position to stroll away however his bike was unable to be recovered and the race was crimson flagged.
WorldSSP Outcomes Race 2
1. Dominique Aegerter (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha)
2. Stefano Manzi (Dynavolt Triumph) +0.470s
3. Can Oncu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) +4.461s
4. Raffaele De Rosa (Orelac Racing VerdNatura WorldSSP) +7.838s
5. Yari Montella (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) +9.217s
6. Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Crew) +9.299s
Championship standings (after Race 2 – Spherical 11)
1. Dominique Aegerter (SUI) Yamaha (462 factors)
2. Lorenzo Baldassarri (ITA) Yamaha (359 factors)
3. Can Oncu (TUR) Kawasaki (248 factors)
Extra, from one other press launch issued by Dorna:
Alvaro Bautista secures 2022 WorldSBK crown
The 37 year-old rider secured the 2022 WorldSBK Riders’ Championship at Mandalika
Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.It Racing – Ducati) fought exhausting in the course of the 2022 season, resisting the cost of 2021 WorldSBK Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) and six-time Champion Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Crew WorldSBK). He turned WorldSBK’s nineteenth Champion, and the second Spanish rider to be topped WorldSBK Champion after Carlos Checa in 2011; Checa was additionally Ducati’s final WorldSBK Champion.
Bautista returned to Ducati for the 2022 season after two seasons away and did so in excellent style, taking his first win of the season within the Tissot Superpole Race on the season-opening Aragon Spherical. He additionally left MotorLand Aragon because the title chief following his Race 2 victory. Rea was in a position to battle again at Assen however that lasted for simply at some point as Bautista prolonged his lead once more in Race 2, with the newly-crowned Champion main the way in which from Assen’s Race 2 onwards. A Race 1 crash at Donington Park dented Bautista’s lead however he bounced again in model; taking 15 podiums within the 18 races that adopted together with a hat-trick on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. An important a part of Bautista’s title-winning marketing campaign was his fights with each Razgatlioglu and Rea, notably with the 2021 Champion all through the Estoril, Portuguese and Argentinean Rounds.
Bautista started his profession within the Spanish Championship from 1995 to 2002. In 2002, he was preventing for the title till the ultimate race. In the identical yr, he made his first look within the FIM 125cc World Championship as a wildcard. He turned a 125cc Grand Prix winner in 2006 on the Spanish GP. With eighth victories claimed that season, he secured his first World Championship title. The Spanish rider then moved as much as the 250cc class, claiming 28 podium locations together with eight victories. Bautista stepped as much as the FIM MotoGP™ World Championship in 2010. Throughout his eighth seasons in MotoGP™, he claimed three podium locations and one pole place, with a fifth place as his greatest classification within the Championship standings in 2012. In 2019, Bautista made his WorldSBK debut with Ducati, ending his rookie season with 16 wins, 24 podium locations, 4 pole positions and 15 quickest laps as he secured second place within the Championship standings.
In 2020, he switched to Honda, racing for the Crew HRC squad. Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he claimed three podium locations for the Japanese producer earlier than returning to Ducati and the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati workforce for the 2022 season. With 14 wins and 29 podium locations, Alvaro Bautista turned the 2022 WorldSBK Champion at Mandalika. Bautista turns into the ninth completely different rider to take a Riders’ Championship for Ducati with the Italian producer securing their fifteenth Riders’ Championship total. He’s the third completely different rider in three years to take the crown, in addition to being from a 3rd completely different nation and on a 3rd completely different bike, emphasising the aggressive parity in WorldSBK.
The newly topped WorldSBK Champion will stay with Ducati in 2023 and each will purpose to proceed difficult many information.
Alvaro Bautista, Aruba.It Racing – Ducati:
“It’s unimaginable, I’m so glad. It’s a dream come true, particularly after the final two years and all of the difficulties. I need to say due to everybody who trusted me, to offer me this opportunity to battle for good locations and we obtained the Championship on the first time of making an attempt. In the present day was the primary time I felt a bit nervous or confused, however it was in Race 2 on the grid earlier than the beginning. I attempted to handle the feelings and after I was in first, I used to be making a variety of errors as a result of I had too many ideas in my head! I simply most well-liked to remain second behind Toprak, however he was very robust, so I might simply comply with him. So glad. It’s troublesome to know what to say. I’m simply so glad. Throughout the entire season, I used to be so glad as a result of I had a variety of expertise from the previous. I attempted to be the very best rider, not make errors. I believe our efficiency has been actually, actually excessive. I believe I had one of the best efficiency stage ever from Toprak and Jonathan. They carried out at a extremely excessive stage in all races. I used to be fortunate that I made fewer errors than them. What’s vital can be consistency. I might beat Jonathan, a six-time World Champion and Toprak, a one-time Champion, breaking all of the information in any respect the tracks which implies the extent is so excessive. We will win with this wonderful stage.”
Giulio Nava, Bautista’s Crew Chief:
“We labored actually exhausting for this; this workforce and Ducati. I’ve been working with Alvaro for a few years and I’m tremendous glad to be right here with him, seeing him reaching these outcomes. It means so much. I’m very fortunate to work with him. You create very a robust relationship collectively. We joke collectively. Alvaro is like my brother. It’s troublesome for me to clarify what it means, however it means the world to see him successful.”
Luigi Dall’Igna, Ducati Corse Common Supervisor:
“It’s a fantastic day for us. We labored so much with Alvaro up to now and in 2019 we did a incredible job till the center of the season. Ultimately, we couldn’t win the crown. In the present day, in the long run, and it was a incredible emotion. It was a special occasion. That is most likely probably the greatest seasons of his life. This yr, and 2006, have been two actually wonderful seasons for him. He gained the 2006 125cc World Championship and right this moment he gained WorldSBK. He’s an actual incredible rider and I’m actually, actually glad he might get the title right this moment.”
