The Turkish pilot Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha) has increased his lead at the top of the World Superbike Championship standings, after winning the two premier class races this Sunday at the Jerez-Ángel Nieto Circuit, in his attempt to dethrone the six-time world champion of the specialty, the Northern Irishman Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki), current defender of the title. Razgatlioglu won the second race of the day, ahead of the British Scott Redding (Ducati), who stood up to him until the end but was finally second when the two entered the finish line together. The third place went to the Talavera Álvaro Bautista (Honda), who emerged victorious from the fight for the pending place to get on the podium in a group in which Rea finished fifth.
In the first race, also held this Sunday and with the temperature of the track colder, the first two of the general classification maintained an interesting struggle for victory. Before this race, Razgatlioglu’s lead over Rea in the general classification was just one point but now the Turk has stretched the gap to twenty in his favor. On this first date of the day, Rea was second behind the Ottoman driver, while Redding finished third. In the absence of three tests for the conclusion of the Superbike World Championship, in Portugal, Argentina and Indonesia, Razgatlioglu is the first with 449 points, by the 429 of Rea, who is second, and the 375 of Redding, located in third place. Bautista is the best classified Spaniard, in ninth position with 169 points.
The Spanish Isaac Viñales (Kawasaki) has not participated in the Sunday session due to the death of his cousin, Dean Berta Viñales, who died on Saturday in this same circuit during the dispute of the first race of the World Supersport 300. Before the start of the day a minute of silence was observed in memory of the young 15-year-old Spanish pilot, with the presence of his cousin and main representative of the family saga of motorcyclists Maverick Viñales, rider of the MotoGP World Championship. The third and last day of the tenth scoring round of the World Superbike Championship will end this Sunday in Jerez after the second Supersport 300 race.
