Alvaro Bautista Wins Superpole WSBK Sprint Race Sunday

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WorldSBK 2019
First round – Phillip Island
Sunday Superpole Race

Jonathan Rea got a spin in front of Alex Lowes, Alvaro Bautista and Leon Haslam. Tom Sykes had started in sixth place but had flown late in the first lap and lost several positions.

Bautista did little work on Lowes and then immediately started parrying and pushing the race leader, Jonathan Rea. It took him another turn to make a stick move, but once through, he dropped the hammer.

This time, Rea had the confidence to hit his hammer and the pair started swapping places at the front of the field.

Bautista and Rea traded their positions several times per lap as the race continued as Leon Haslam attempted to narrow the gap and join the group in front.

Haslam, however, did not have the pace because the race took the fold of the duo.

At the front, it was Bautista who had the pace and pace to get away from Rea in the last two rounds and move to two. Will he make three out of three points in the next round of 22 laps later this afternoon …?

Only half points are awarded to this new shorter intermediate race which has been added to all Superbike World Championship rounds for the 2019 season.

In this sprint race, the drivers broke the existing lap record 17 times in this fight. Bautista has gone under six times, just like Rea, while Leon Haslam has collapsed under the previous lap record five times during the ten-lap race.

WSBK Superpole Race (10 rounds)
  1. Alvaro Bautista – Ducati
  2. Jonathan Rea – Kawasaki +1.176
  3. Leon Haslam – Kawasaki +5.072
  4. Alex Lowes – Yamaha +6.713
  5. Michael Van der Mark – Yamaha +6.800
  6. Marco Melandri – Yamaha +7.904
  7. Sandro Cortese – Yamaha +8.224
  8. Michael Rinaldi – Ducati +10.944
  9. Eugene Laverty – Ducati +12.416
  10. Chaz Davies – Ducati +14.068
  11. Tom Sykes – BMW +14.710
  12. Markus Reiterberger +16.994
  13. Leon Camier – Honda +20.012
  14. Ryuichi Kiyonari – Honda +24.013
  15. Topraz Razgatlioglu – Kawasaki +36.581
  16. Troy Herfoss – Honda +48.731
  17. Jordi Torres – Kawasaki +58.942
  1. Alvaro Bautista 37
  2. Jonathan Rea 29
  3. Marco Melandri 20
  4. Alex Lowes 19
  5. Michael Van der Mark 16
  6. Sandro Cortese 11
  7. Toprak Razgatlioglu 10
  8. Tom Sykes 9
  9. Michael Rinaldi 9
  10. Leon Haslam 8

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