Rea’s hopes of completing a second consecutive Assen WorldSBK hat-trick were dashed, as was Razgatlioglu’s efforts of winning a first race this season, by cont﷽act that ꦆhas often been made between the two, but never resulted in the two riders crashing out. 

Attempting to stop the recentꦗ trend which has been losing out on victory to Rea and Bautista, Razgatlioglu appeared even more determined to keep the two 2022 race winners behind him. 

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That meant using his late braking prowess to keep ahead of Bautista at the🙈 Geert Tim🙈mer chicane on lap three, and once again at turn one against Rea. 

But with Rea and his ZX10-RR making s🦩ignificant improvements over the winter regarding traction coming out of corners, itﷺ was at that same turn one where Rea was immediately on the Yamaha rider’s case. 

Razgatlioglu, who got a poor exit out of the final chicane, was compromised for speed as Rea got alongside him. However, the Turkish star somehow kept his R1 on-track and therefore avoided missing the corner, but the reigning w🌜orld champion had to compromise his speed once again on the approach to turn two, which allowed Rea to get alongside. 

But that’s as far as the attempted overtake went as Rea and Razgatlioglu made contact before 𝕴the pair simultaneously hit the deck.&nbs﷽p;

Speaking about the crash which followed a Superpole race in which he made hi💯story with Kawasaki, Rea added: “Wit♔h the crash in race two, from my point of view, I drew alongside Toprak on the start-finish straight. He braked 15 metres later than normal. He then stopped the bike on the kerb before going off and sacrificed so much speed and my normal apex racing line was so much faster. 

“In this situation at Assen norma༺ܫlly the guy on the outside gives way, because someone is coming on the inside. 

“Like I did in turn one, in the first lap of the race with Lecuona. I went deep - and I understand that you can’t come back onto the t⛄rack. You cannot make sudden movements into the racing line. 

“I was committed to my line going into T2 la🧜ter in th𝐆e race. I was in front when we came together because he hit my hip on the rear side. Unfortunate, as it really soured our weekend. My team gave me an incredible bike for the race.”

Rea believes fans were robbed of a WorldSBK classic!

“I am frustrated for myself, but also Toprak and the fans. We were deprived of a good race. Two into one when that happens doesn’t work,” added the six-time w🌳orld chaജmpion. 

“We have to be happy with taking 100 race wins fo🥀r Kawasaki in the Superpole Race. It was a great morning for us! It didn’t finish in the best way but I thin🌜k we can take a lot of confidence that our package is working really well.”

While Rea suggested R💟azgatlioglu was more at fault, Razgatlioglu believes it was a racing incident due to never leaving the track. 

Razgatlioglu added: “I tried to brake hard at the first corner and I ran a litꦰtle bit wide, but I di🍬dn’t go outside the track. I’m turning also onto the racing line. 

“I to🌠uched 💫the kerb but I stayed on the racing line, I didn’t come back inside. I saw Jonny and he was very fast. After, we crashed. I think for me this is a racing incident. 

“I thཧink Jonny needs to look at me. I go a little bit wide, I stay on the track, but he’s not looking. He’s just opened the gas and we crashed together.”

Bautista the big winner from Rea-Razgatlioglu drama; ‘I was so lucky’

Of course, the big winner from today’s clash was Alvaro Bautista who has regained the championship lead tha🍌nks to a dominant race two win. 

After the two leaders went down, Bautista was briefly relegated to second by I🌳ker Lecu🥀ona as the Ducati rider had to take avoiding action. 

In fact, Bautista could easily have been caught up as he missed Razgat𒁏lioglu’s bike by just a few inch﷽es: “I was fighting with Toprak and Jonathan, I had some fun. But in the first corner Toprak went a bit out and Jonathan went very fast in the same line that Toprak was trying to recover and they touched. I was so lucky because I didn’t touch their bike for just a few millimetres.”

However, the Spaniard quickly responded before openꦯing up a nine second lead come t🦩he checkered flag. It means Bautista’s lead over Rea is 18 points heading to Estoril next month