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Aragon WSBK: Bautista wins as Rea outduels Lowes
Alvaro Bautista took yet another dominant World Superbike victory in the Superpole race at Aragon as Jonathan Rea beat Alex Lowes in a thrilling duel for second.
David Gruz
Edited: Apr 7, 2019, 9:37 AM
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Bautista had a good start from pole and rapidly pulled away from GRT Yamaha's Sandro Cortese, whose focus on the opening lap was on Lowes, the works Yamaha rider attacking and eventually passed the German for second.
As Cortese gradually fell back, Rea became Lowes' main challenger for the runner-up spot, making a successful move at Turn 12 on the fourth lap.
But Lowes fought back and slipstreamed past Rea on the back straight three laps later.
However, Lowes was then also unable to pull away and had to surrender second place to Rea on the penultimate lap, the Northern Irishman continuing his streak of eight consecutive second-place finishes this year.
He ended the race 5.7s behind Bautista, who was once again in a class of his own at the front.
Lowes took third for the fourth time in the last five races as Bautista's Ducati teammate Chaz Davies finished fourth, closely following the duo of Rea and Lowes but unable to mount a challenge.
Tom Sykes (BMW) passed Eugene Laverty (GoEleven Ducati) to repeat his Race 1 result of fifth, as Kawasaki duo Leon Haslam and Jordi Torres (Pedercini) completed the top eight.
Cortese had to settle for ninth in the end, followed by Toprak Razgatlioglu (Puccetti Kawasaki).
Michael van der Mark and Michael Ruben Rinaldi collided at Turn 1 after the start and the latter was sent to the medical centre, while the former carried on after losing nearly a minute.
Markus Reiterberger's BMW stopped on track, while Leandro Mercado skipped the race after suffering a suspected fractured left wrist on Saturday.
Superpole race results
Cla # Rider Bike Laps Time/Gap 1 19 
Alvaro Bautista Ducati 10 18'25.853 2 1 
Jonathan Rea Kawasaki 10 5.791 3 22 Alex Lowes Yamaha 10 5.906 4 7 Chaz Davies Ducati 10 6.052 5 66 Tom Sykes BMW 10 9.217 6 50 
Eugene Laverty Ducati 10 9.921 7 91 Leon Haslam Kawasaki 10 10.221 8 81 Jordi Torres Kawasaki 10 11.961 9 11 
Sandro Cortese Yamaha 10 13.712 10 54 
Toprak Razgatlioglu Kawasaki 10 14.218 11 33 
Marco Melandri Yamaha 10 19.481 12 2 Leon Camier Honda 10 21.149 13 23 
Ryuichi Kiyonari Honda 10 27.041 14 52 Alessandro Delbianco Honda 10 1'20.614 15 60 
Michael van der Mark Yamaha 10 28 Markus Reiterberger BMW 5 21 Michael Ruben Rinaldi Ducati
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