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World Superbike Jerez
Jerez WSBK: Redding leads Ducati 1-2, Rea struggles
Scott Redding doubled up at Jerez with victory in the second World Superbike feature race to increase his championship lead as reigning champion Jonathan Rea struggled to sixth.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Aug 3, 2020, 7:28 AM
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WSBK rookie Redding bagged his first win in Saturday’s feature race and added another podium to his tally in Sunday’s Superpole race to take a nine-point standings lead ahead of the final outing in Spain.
As was the case in the previous two races, Kawasaki’s Rea grabbed the holeshot at the start – this time from pole by virtue of his Superpole race win – ahead of Redding and Ten Kate Yamaha man Loris Baz.
Redding would find a way past Rea at the start of the second lap, with factory Yamaha rider Toprak Razgatlioglu moving up to third having started 10th and having crashed on the sighting lap prior to the race.
Redding put a second between himself and Rea as they started the fourth tour, which extended by a further half a second over the fifth lap.
The Kawasaki rider appeared to be struggling with his ZX-10RR and would soon slip behind the sister Ducati of Chaz Davies, who had cleared Razgatlioglu on the third lap.
Rea soon came under attack from Razgatlioglu, with the Yamaha coming through at the start of lap six – though was forced to fight back through Turn 7 and 9 after Alex Lowes made a failed passing bid on the pair of them at Turn 6 and forced the Turkish rider out wide.
Razgatlioglu made a move on Rea stick two laps later at Turn 6 and quickly pulled away into a safe third spot.
At the front, Davies managed to cut Redding’s lead down to 1.7s at half distance, but Redding soon responded to get the gap back to over two seconds for an untroubled run to the chequered flag.
Davies secured his first podium of the 2020 season and the 90th of his career to complete a Ducati 1-2, with Razgatlioglu grabbing another third-place finish.
Rea’s woes continued as the race wore on, with Go Eleven Ducati’s Michael Ruben Rinaldi and then the sister KRT bike of Lowes demoting the world champion to sixth.
Rinaldi equalled his best WSBK result in fourth, ahead of Lowes and Rea, while Yamaha’s Michael van der Mark was seventh.
Alvaro Bautista was top Honda runner at the chequered flag in eighth ahead of Barni Ducati’s Marco Melandri and the GRT Yamaha of Garrett Gerloff.
Redding’s championship lead now stands at 24 points over Rea heading to next weekend’s third round in Portugal.
Race results:
Cla # Rider Bike Laps Gap 1 45 Scott Redding
Ducati 20 2 7 Chaz Davies
Ducati 20 3.082 3 54 Toprak Razgatlioglu
Yamaha 20 5.472 4 21 Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Ducati 20 8.709 5 22 Alex Lowes
Kawasaki 20 10.772 6 1 Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki 20 12.501 7 60 Michael van der Mark
Yamaha 20 13.760 8 19 Alvaro Bautista
Honda 20 17.472 9 33 Marco Melandri
Ducati 20 19.938 10 31 Garrett Gerloff
Yamaha 20 21.375 11 66 Tom Sykes
BMW 20 23.555 12 91 Leon Haslam
Honda 20 28.209 13 12 Xavi Fores
Kawasaki 20 29.128 14 11 Sandro Cortese
Kawasaki 20 35.062 15 36 Leandro Mercado
Ducati 20 35.269 16 64 Federico Caricasulo
Yamaha 20 38.450 17 76 Loris Baz
Yamaha 20 44.444 18 77 Maximilian Scheib
Kawasaki 20 45.370 19 63 Lorenzo Gabellini
Honda 20 1'08.007 20 Sylvain Barrier
Ducati 17 23 Christophe Ponsson
Aprilia 14 50 Eugene Laverty
BMW 11 13 Takumi Takahashi
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