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World Superbike Mandalika
Indonesia WSBK: Razgatlioglu wins, Bautista closes on title
Yamaha's Toprak Razgatlioglu won the opening World Superbike race of the weekend at Mandalika as Alvaro Bautista closed in on a first championship title with a second-place finish.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Nov 12, 2022, 8:29 AM
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Poleman Razgatlioglu led from start to finish at the Indonesian venue to register his 12th win of the season and keep his slim title defence hopes alive, beating the Ducati of Bautista by a margin of 4.3 seconds.
It means Bautista takes a reduced lead of 77 points into Sunday's two races, with only 99 left on offer this season.
At the start, Razgatlioglu and teammate Andrea Locatelli established an early Yamaha 1-2 out front as Bautista jumped from fifth on the grid to third ahead of the Kawasaki of Jonathan Rea.
Six-time champion Rea was able to wrest back third later around the opening lap, before making light work of Locatelli to take second on lap 2 of 21 before closing in on leader Razgatlioglu.
But it soon became clear that Rea lacked the pace to take the fight to the runaway polesitter, and he soon had to turn his attentions to protecting second from Bautista, who didn't take long to pass Locatelli for third.
Bautista dived up the inside of Rea at the long Turn 15-16 right-hander on lap 9 to take second, but by this stage Razgatlioglu had already escaped to the tune of three seconds at the head of the field.
Razgatlioglu suffered a scare on lap 13 as he ran wide, allowing Bautista to close to within just over a second, but he soon started to rebuild his advantage and was never seriously threatened on his way to the chequered flag.
Behind Bautista, Rea was a distant third, a result that official rules the six-time title winner out of the championship fight.
Locatelli was passed late on for fourth by the second works Ducati of Michael Ruben Rinaldi, but on lap 17 Rinaldi ran wide, allowing Locatelli back through to score his best finish since May's Estoril round.
A fierce battle for sixth place was eventually won by Xavi Vierge, the sole factory representative for Honda in the absence of Iker Lecuona, who couldn't race after injuring himself in a Friday practice crash.
Garrett Gerloff was seventh on the GRT Yamaha to beat Axel Bassani to the honour of top independent rider, while Alex Lowes could only manage ninth after being shuffled out wide on the opening lap.
Loris Baz was the top BMW finisher in 10th place following a late crash for Michael van der Mark, who had made it as high as fifth place at one stage before dropping back and tumbling at Turn 16 while battling Gerloff.
Scott Redding was another rider to lose out in a big way on the opening lap, dropping virtually to last, with the Briton only able to recover to a disappointing 12th at the finish.
World Superbike Mandalika - Race 1 results:
Cla # Rider Bike Laps Gap 1 1 Toprak Razgatlioglu
Yamaha 21 2 19 Alvaro Bautista
Ducati 21 4.324 3 65 Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki 21 11.855 4 55 Andrea Locatelli
Yamaha 21 19.954 5 21 Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Ducati 21 23.992 6 97 Xavi Vierge
Honda 21 27.114 7 31 Garrett Gerloff
Yamaha 21 27.776 8 47 Axel Bassani
Ducati 21 31.015 9 22 Alex Lowes
Kawasaki 21 31.363 10 76 Loris Baz
BMW 21 39.809 11 12 Xavi Fores
Ducati 21 39.895 12 45 Scott Redding
BMW 21 56.317 13 35 Hafizh Syahrin
Honda 21 1'00.618 14 50 Eugene Laverty
BMW 21 1'04.247 15 3 Kohta Nozane
Yamaha 21 1'05.242 16 52 Oliver Konig
Kawasaki 21 1'06.538 60 Michael van der Mark
BMW 17 11 Kyle Smith
Kawasaki 12 36 Leandro Mercado
Honda 11 5 Philipp Oettli
Ducati 10 View full results
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