Razgatlioglu ties up final day of WorldSBK testing at Jerez

Pata Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu secured the standings once again at Jerez as WorldSBK testing completed its second day.

As expected, Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea and Aruba.it Ducati’s Alvaro Bautista joined him in the top three, less than two tenths shy of the Turkish rider’s 1:38.269 best, with the pair’s teammates Michael Rinaldi and Alex Lowes locking out the fastest five.

Cool morning temperatures saw a delay to proceedings as day two at Jerez eventually fired up an hour later than planned on Thursday. Bautista was the man to beat in the early stages - on the bubble of 1’39 pace - with Razgatlioglu and Rea neatly behind, while teammate Rinaldi headed fellow Ducati man Danilo Petrucci in the top five.

Razgatlioglu recovered from an early and heavy turn 13 crash to better Bautista by just 0.028s on his second R1 as the morning developed. The 2022 Champion back in charge overall on his 50th lap of the day, a 1’38.540 setting the benchmark for the afternoon runs.

The second half of the top ten was filled with improvers as Pata Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli made his way to fifth, half a second adrift of his teammate’s current best, with Petrucci, KRT’s Lowes, Bonovo BMW’s Loris Baz, GRT’s Remy Gardner and Honda’s Iker Lecuona all narrowly behind with two hours to go.

As the clock clicked down the 2021 champ had returned to command with a 1’38.269 effort, Rea just 0.083s adrift with Bautista completing the top three, less than two tenths back. Rinaldi maintained his best of the rest position in fourth as the final rider under the 1’39 barrier on the second day with Lowes leading a Yamaha pairing of Locatelli and Dominique Aegerter from fifth. Petrucci, Lecuona and Gardner completed the top ten, with the rookie 1.2s off the outright pace after 162 laps of the Andalusian track.

Aruba Ducati’s Niccolo Bulega was the fastest WorldSSP rider - on 1’41.685 pace - for the second day in a row, the Italian fending off close competition Puccetti Kawasaki’s Can Öncü and Althea’s Federico Caricasulo with John McPhee continuing to get to grips with his Vince64 Kawasaki from sixth.

1 54 WSBK Toprak RAZGATLIOGLU 61 1:38.269 — ——- 38 250,2
2 65 WSBK Jonathan REA 56 1:38.352 0.083 0.083 53 263,9
3 1 WSBK Alvaro BAUTISTA 86 1:38.449 0.180 0.097 65 267,3
4 21 WSBK Michael Ruben RINALDI 67 1:38.646 0.377 0.197 67 255,3
5 22 WSBK Alex LOWES 77 1:39.175 0.906 0.529 75 -
6 77 WSBK Dominique AEGERTER 71 1:39.193 0.924 0.018 70 262,6
7 55 WSBK Andrea LOCATELLI 69 1:39.280 1.011 0.087 51 247,3
8 9 WSBK Danilo PETRUCCI 54 1:39.311 1.042 0.031 52 255,9
9 7 WSBK Iker LECUONA 68 1:39.337 1.068 0.026 58 266,9
10 87 WSBK Remy GARDNER 76 1:39.464 1.195 0.127 70 221,2
11 76 WSBK Loris BAZ 61 1:39.517 1.248 0.053 61 244,8
12 45 WSBK Scott REDDING 67 1:39.710 1.441 0.193 62 -
13 97 WSBK Xavi VIERGE 79 1:39.860 1.591 0.150 77 238,3
14 5 WSBK Philipp OETTL 75 1:40.023 1.754 0.163 70 253,3
15 31 WSBK Garrett GERLOFF 47 1:40.101 1.832 0.078 41 258,2
16 60 WSBK Michael VD MARK 77 1:40.221 1.952 0.120 74 71,5
17 66 WSBK Tom SYKES 36 1:40.750 2.481 0.529 33 258,7
18 34 WSBK Lorenzo BALDASSARRI 65 1:40.975 2.706 0.225 29 253,5
19 121 WSBK Florian MARINO 52 1:41.553 3.284 0.578 38 258,5
20 52 WSBK Oliver KÖNIG 62 1:41.595 3.326 0.042 18 254,1
21 11 WSSP Niccolo BULEGA 69 1:41.685 3.416 0.090 24 234,9
22 61 WSSP Can ONCU 72 1:41.858 3.589 0.173 46 218,2
23 64 WSSP Federico CARICASULO 68 1:42.012 3.743 0.154 58 235,6
24 40 SBK Roman RAMOS 54 1:42.087 3.818 0.075 41 252,7
25 99 WSSP Adrian HUERTAS 39 1:42.923 4.654 0.836 12 131,6
26 122 STK Sam LOWES 59 1:43.062 4.793 0.139 49 235,3
27 19 WSSP Andrea MANTOVANI 88 1:43.149 4.880 0.087 27 215,3
28 27 WSSP John MCPHEE 65 1:43.665 5.396 0.516 62 231,5
29 131 Roberto GARCIA 27 1:44.574 6.305 0.909 14 250,7
30 16 WSSP Yuta OKAYA 13 1:46.225 7.956 1.651 5 224,2
31 44 David MUÑOZ 34 1:47.138 8.869 0.913 6 248,8
32 222 Ana CARRASCO 42 1:48.906 10.637 1.768 42 213,5