Prior to the race getting und🐈erway heavy rain fell once again at Ass🙈en following a wet FP3 and Superpole.

But that wasn’t the case for long as blue skies arrived just in time for the start of the race, creating even more confusion for riders an๊d teams.

• Remy Gardner aiming to🅷 get first WorldSBK podium in Race 1 at Assen 
• Toprak Razgatlioglu and Alvaro Bautista discuss Race 1 strate🍰gy 

Most of the rider𝄹s elected for slick tyres however, the intermedia🌜tes were the tyre to be on as Nicholas Spinelli made a big impact early on.

The stand-in for Danilo Petrucci took an early lead and cle🎐ared off as Sam Lowes dove𒈔 into pit lane at the end of lap one.

A 13-second lead was created by Spinelli by the end of lap two a🍌s Andrea Locat🦋elli, who also had an intermediate front, began making progress.

Spinelli’s lead continued to grow as he pulled clear of Axel Bassani by෴ over 24 seconds, how💛ever, the track was starting to dry quickly.

Trying to keep pace wi൩th Alvaro Bautista, Andrea Iannone made a mistake coming out of turn twꩲo as he highsided off his Panigale V4 R machine.

With seven laps gone, Spinelli’s intermediate tyre advantage was ov🥃e🍃r as Bassani, Razgatlioglu and Bautista all lapped quicker.

Bautista then set a new fastest lap of the race as he followed Raz꧙gatlioglu in overtaking Bassani.

A mistake from Razgatlioglu at the beginnℱing of lap nine allowed Bautista to gain🦩 second place at turn one.

With nine laps to go Spinelli’s lead was down to💦 11 🐻seconds as Bautista and Razgatlioglu began to drop the group behind them.

At the conclusion of lap 14, Razgatlioglu produced a brilliant move on Bautis𓄧ta which was for second, but soon to be first as Spinelli was just a coupl🐎e of corners ahead.

However, more drama followed as a red flag was deployed beyond the two-third race distance, giving Spinelli victory in h🧔is first Superbike race.

The red flag was waved due to oil on circuit, which was released by𒅌 Locatelli’s Yamaha.