With a striking decoration of yellow appeared Baptist with the ducati to the first sleeve of the weekend of the Emilia-Romagna of the Superbike World Championship to sign another victory, the 12th of the year. The surprising color, which was not bad luck, was a tribute from the house of Borgo Panigale to its origins and Giallo Ducati. The color will also be used by the team MotoGPbut going back to the derivatives of the series, the Spaniard started from first place thanks to his third pole of the season and despite not starting one hundred percent, he defended his position against the initial attack of razgatlioglu with the yamaha.
And the story almost ended there, because in a few curves the two Panigale, the Spaniard’s and Rinaldi’s, began to put land in the middle, leaving Razgatlioglu in no man’s land, because his backs, the fight between the private Petrucci and Bassani with the Kawasaki of rhea They left him a certain margin in those first laps.
Until halfway through the race, shortened by one lap due to problems at the start of Bradley Ray, the positions remained stable, with aegerter, lowes, lecuona and gardner They completed in the top-10. Not so the differences, since in front the Ducatis of Bautista and Rinaldi walked with more advantage and Petrucci got rid of the group that accompanied him from the beginning to harass the third position of razgatlioglu that the Turk defended with a change of pace that the Italian could not stand. This one went to the ground in his effort to progress and his fourth position was inherited by another Ducati, Bassani’s.
And so the podium was seen to sentence, with the two ducati and the yamaha and Baptist continues to increase his distance in the championship lead. He started Saturday with a 69 lead, to which he adds the nine he gave Razgatlioglu in race 1. Behind, bassani was fourth and Rea defended his fifth position against aegerter.
After achieving his 44th victory in the Superbike World Championship, which places him fourth in the history of the derivatives of the series and leaving Noriyuki Haga behind, the man from Talavera attended the television broadcast: “I am very happy, I have tried to make a good start and close the first corners to keep the lead and I was surprised with the pace from the beginning. Then I couldn’t relax because Rinaldi was very close, pushing. I have been very focused, we have changed the colors but the feeling’sThe bike is still good. And I am very happy to win here with Ducati and I hope to win more”.
