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Estoril WSBK: Rea beats Razgatlioglu to win on last lap
Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea passed reigning World Superbike champion Toprak Razgatlioglu on the last lap to claim victory in Sunday’s Superpole race at Estoril.
Rachit Thukral
Edited: May 22, 2022, 11:58 AM
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As was the case in Saturday’s opening contest, pole-sitter Rea lost the lead at the start of the race, with Razgatlioglu making a superior launch from second place to grab the holeshot into Turn 1.
Rea then ran wide at the hairpin later on the opening lap, allowing Razgatlioglu some breathing space in the early stages of the 10-lap race.
However, the Ulsterman took little time to close the gap back to the Yamaha rider and at the start of lap 3 he used the superior grunt of the Kawasaki to grab the lead again.
Razgatlioglu fought back four laps later, passing Rea under the brakes into Turn 1 as they continued a fierce battle for victory.
It appeared that Razgatlioglu had finally done enough to score a first win of 2022 as the final lap began, but he had a major moment going into the Turn 9/10 chicane, allowing Rea to come through and snatch victory from his grasp.
This was the second time in two races that the Turkish rider was denied a victory at Estoril, having lost out to Alvaro Bautista in a dash to the finish line on Saturday.
The difference between Rea and Razgatlioglu at the chequered flag was just 0.174s, with championship leader Bautista finishing nearly five seconds back as the best-of-the-rest on the factory Ducati.
Honda’s Iker Lecuona once appeared a serious threat for a podium place as he piled pressure on Bautista with an intermediate-slick tyre combination on a damp but drying track, but his pace faded in the second half of the race and he had to settle for fourth.
Finishing fifth was Andrea Locatelli on the second factory Yamaha, with Alex Lowes ending up right on his tail in sixth on the works Kawasaki.
Scott Redding rocketed to third at the start of the race but his BMW didn’t have the pace to keep up with the frontrunners, the British rider eventually classified seventh and some 10s off the lead.
Ducati’s Michael Ruben Rinaldi fended off Xaxi Fores on the satellite Go Eleven bike to claim eighth, as the latter impressed again as a last-minute replacement for the injured Philipp Oettl.
The top 10 was rounded out by Axel Bassani on another privately-run Panigale V4 R entered by the Motocorsa team.
Several riders crashed out from the race including Bonovo MGM duo Loris Baz and Eugene Laverty, with the second-named taken to the medical centre for check-ups.
Xaxi Vierge was forced to pit his Honda at the end of the second lap with mechanical troubles.
Estoril WSBK - Superpole race results:
Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap 1 65 Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki 16'21.784 2 1 Toprak Razgatlioglu
Yamaha 16'21.958 0.174 3 19 Alvaro Bautista
Ducati 16'26.709 4.925 4 7 Iker Lecuona
Honda 16'28.834 7.050 5 55 Andrea Locatelli
Yamaha 16'30.024 8.240 6 22 Alex Lowes
Kawasaki 16'30.468 8.684 7 45 Scott Redding
BMW 16'32.077 10.293 8 21 Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Ducati 16'51.300 29.516 9 12 Xavi Fores
Ducati 16'51.325 29.541 10 47 Axel Bassani
Ducati 16'53.898 32.114 11 3 Kohta Nozane
Yamaha 16'53.925 32.141 12 23 Christophe Ponsson
Yamaha 17'14.042 52.258 13 32 Isaac Viñales
Kawasaki 17'14.993 53.209 14 36 Leandro Mercado
Honda 17'17.265 55.481 15 29 Luca Bernardi
Ducati 17'28.065 1'06.281 16 35 Hafizh Syahrin
Honda 17'29.507 1'07.723 17 52 Oliver Konig
Kawasaki 17'29.542 1'07.758 50 Eugene Laverty
BMW 6 Laps 76 Loris Baz
BMW 7 Laps 97 Xavi Vierge
Honda 9 Laps 17 Marvin Fritz
Yamaha 10 Laps 44 Lucas Mahias
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