WorldSBK Most: Razgatlioglu celebrates Sunday double

Pata Yamaha’s Toprak Razgatlioglu secured a perfect Sunday with victory from pole in the final WorldSBK race at Autodrom Most.

Championship leader Alvaro Bautista maintained his control of the standings with second position on the Aruba.it Ducati over Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea with BMW’s Scott Redding continuing his building fortunes in fourth.

WorldSBK race two prepared without both Alex Lowes and Eugene Laverty as the Kawasaki rider succumbed to his ailing health woes and the Bonovo rider was declared unfit due to ‘functional impairment of his right arm’.

Razgatlioglu returned to head the grid after his Superpole victory with title-rivals Rea and Bautista alongside on the front row. BMW’s race one podium-sitter Redding lining up from the middle of row three, in eighth. The reigning champion held the holeshot as Bautista shot to second. Rea demoted to fifth and directly into a battle with the BMW before gaining on the second Aruba of Michael Rinaldi for fourth. Motocorsa’s Axel Bassani on the edge of the podium before both the Italian and Northern Irishman advanced to dispatch him back to fifth.

Razgatlioglu held more than a half-second lead by the second lap with a pair of Ducatis aiming to reel him in. The Turkish rider responding with the fastest lap of the race so far as Rea returned to podium contention and his sights on Bautista ahead. Rinaldi and Redding remaining in check as the top five riders were covered by just over a second.

Rinaldi slid out of a move on Rea at the opening corner as lap four fired up. Bassani now six tenths back from the podium places with Redding over two seconds clear of Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli in sixth.

Bautista took a look at the leader as the battle intensified out front. Honda’s Iker