Navarra WSBK: Redding beats Rea, Razgatlioglu loses ground

Ducati rider Redding, who is switching to the BMW camp for 2022, passed poleman Rea on lap six of 23 to make it back-to-back wins following his triumph in the final race in the previous round at Most.

It means Redding has closed to within 45 points of series leader Rea, who in turn holds a seven-point advantage over third-place finisher Razgatlioglu.

From second on the grid, Redding got the jump to take an early lead, but was repassed midway round the opening tour by Rea's Kawasaki.

But Rea was never able to stretch a gap out front, and Redding was able to make use of his traction coming out the final corner to blast ahead of Rea heading into Turn 1 on lap six.

Rea was powerless to close in again, running wide at Turn 9 on at least two occasions in a vain bid to keep up with the Ducati rider - finally crossing the line 2.5 seconds in arrears.

Razgatlioglu completed the podium in third place a further three seconds back, but in the process conceded four points to Rea in the title race.

The Turkish rider made incisive early progress from eighth, climbing to fourth on the opening lap, but it took him until the seventh lap to pass Yamaha teammate Andrea Locatelli for the final podium spot.

Alex Lowes was a distant fifth on the second Kawasaki ahead of the BMWs of Tom Sykes and Michael van der Mark.

Garrett Gerloff slipped from ninth on the grid to 15th in the early stages but recovered to finish where he started, narrowly missing out on eighth place to Axel Bassani's Motocorsa Ducati.

Redding's works Ducati teammate Michael Ruben Rinaldi was 10th, almost 30 seconds off the win.

Kohta Nozane scored his best full-length WSBK result in 11th on the second GRT Yamaha ahead of Tito Rabat's Barni Ducati.

Leon Haslam was a disappointing 13th on the only Honda to finish the race, as Alvaro Bautista crashed out and Leandro Mercado was involved in an incident with Christophe Ponsson's Yamaha.

Chaz Davies (Go Eleven Ducati) and Lucas Mahias (Puccetti Kawasaki) likewise both suffered early crashes.

Suzuki wildcard Naomichi Uramoto was a lapped 16th, missing out on the final point to a remounting Ponsson.

Race results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Laps	Gap
1	45	Scott Redding	Ducati	23
2	1	Jonathan Rea	Kawasaki	23	2.519
3	54	Toprak Razgatlioglu	Yamaha	23	5.894
4	55	Andrea Locatelli	Yamaha	23	9.405
5	22	Alex Lowes	Kawasaki	23	16.219
6	66	Tom Sykes	BMW	23	20.600
7	60	Michael van der Mark	BMW	23	24.158
8	47	Axel Bassani	Ducati	23	26.497
9	31	Garrett Gerloff	Yamaha	23	26.718
10	21	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	Ducati	23	29.602
11	3	Kohta Nozane	Yamaha	23	39.387
12	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	23	41.316
13	91	Leon Haslam	Honda	23	44.338
14	94	Jonas Folger	BMW	23	48.470
15	23	Christophe Ponsson	Yamaha	23
16	6	Naomichi Uramoto	Suzuki	23
17	84	Loris Cresson	Kawasaki	23
18	14	Jayson Uribe	Kawasaki	22
	19	Alvaro Bautista	Honda	0
	7	Chaz Davies	Ducati	0
	44	Lucas Mahias	Kawasaki	0
	36	Leandro Mercado	Honda	0
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