World Superbike 🦂champion🍰 Alvaro Bautista has won his ninth race out of ten although disaster struck Ducati following a lcash between two of its riders.

Despite a slitgly sluggish launch, Bautista’s straight line speedꦏ meant he was able to hold off Michael Ruben Rinaldi and Jonathan Rea on the run tꦆo turn one.

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The biggest moveꦯr was Andrea Locate🦋lli as the factory Yamaha rider came from the fourth row to end lap one in P4, one spot ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu. 

Locatelli was demoted to fifth by his ♑teammate as Razgatlioglu began showing his prowess under braking. 

Doing his best to stay with Bautista, Rinaldi was within six tenths of his teammate after two laps, however,ꩵ lap three was a significant one as Bautista th𝓰en improved his lead to over a second. 

A red flag was then deployed on 🧔lap four following a crash for PETRONAS MIE Honda rider Eric Granado. The Brazilian went down at turn 11 before being stretchered aw𒆙ay by marshals trackside.

Once the incident was cleared, a new race distance of 17 🌟laps was confirmed as Bautista started from pole once again. 

🦂Bautista made a much better start this time around as he held onto the leꦯad from Rinaldi and Axel Bassani.

On lap two, Rinaldi and Bassani came ꧃to blows as contact was made at turn three. On the racing line, Bassani was inste🐟ad moved out wide by Rinaldi before more contact was made at turn 10.

This time it resulted in Rinaldi crashing out after Bassani was the rider who initiated contact. The in🅠cident was then investigated by race direction before a Long-lap pe𝄹nalty was awarded to Bassani.

Pඣrior to their incident, there was another incident as Scott Redding crashed out at turn ten after running into the rear of Lorenzo Baldassarri's Yamaha. 

Bassani, who was over two seconds down on race leader Bautista, took the penalty immediately and subsequently lost out to Rea,ꦉ Razgatlioglu 🧸and Locatelli.

While Bassani attempted to make a comeback to podium places by overtaking Locatelli 🐠for P4, Bautista was in a league of his own as he stretched his lead to over six seconds.

Strug🔯gling behind Iker Lecuona, Alex Lowes suffered a crash with seven laps to go which was his second of the da🐷y.

Failing in his bid to close in on Rea and Razgatlioglu, Bass♎ani instওead went backwards as Locatelli came back through with 4 laps remaining.

After following Rea all race, Razgatliogluౠ finally made his move at the start of the fina𒐪l lap and was completely out of shape while doing so.

But the Yamaha rider somehow managed to make the apex at turn one before holding on until the🌊 checkered flag.

Catalunya World Superbike records

Lap record - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati 1:41.135s

2022 Race Winners

Race 1 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati

Superpole Race - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati 

Race 2 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati

Weekend schedule (UK time) 

Friday

Free Practice 1 - 09:30-10:15

Free Practice 2 - 14:00-14:45

Saturday 

Free Practice 3 - 08:00-08:30

Superpole - 10:10-10:25

Race 1 - 13:00

Sunday 

Warm-up - 08:00-08:15

Superpole Race -10:00

Race 2 - 13:00