Victory with a wide margin in Race 1 for the BMW rider who also sets the new best race lap and who had already achieved the new all-time track record in qualifying. Win and record for Huertas as well in WorldSSP | ||
Toprak Razgatlioğlu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was the undisputed protagonist of the first day at Donington Park, thanks to the solitary win he took home with an amazing gap of more than 11 seconds in Race 1, using a Pirelli DIABLO Superbike SC1 front tyre and a standard SC0 rear tyre. He also set the new race lap record by doing a time of 1’25.786 on the third lap, about one tenth faster than the previous record. Ahead of his race performance, the Turkish rider had already stood out in qualifying, fully exploiting the standard SCQ rear tyre to take pole position with an advantage of more than half a second over the second-place finisher, also setting the new all-time lap record, breaking the previous one by an astonishing 1.2 seconds.
Pole man Adrian Huertas (Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Team – Ducati) took his fifth win of the season using the SCX rear combined with the standard SC1 front in Race 1 of WorldSSP with a lead of over four and a half seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. The Spaniard also set the new best race lap, breaking the record Nicolò Bulega had set last year by a tenth and a half. SC0 a safe bet, SCX an alternative, record-setting SCQ WorldSBK · Almost all the riders on the grid chose the SC1 front and SC0 rear combination for Race 1. The only exceptions were Bautista, Rinaldi, Rabat, and Norrodin, who opted for the SCX at the rear. The race this year, completed in a time of 33’16,535 with 23 laps, was more than 12 seconds faster than Race 1 in 2023, with an average improvement per lap of over half a second. · In qualifying, Toprak Razgatlioğlu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was the only rider of the weekend to drop below the 1’25 mark and, with his best lap at 1’24,629, he broke the all-time Donington record that Álvaro Bautista had set last year by an amazing 1.2 seconds. Another 12 riders, also using the SC1 front and SCQ rear combination, dropped below the previous track record. · In practice on Friday, with asphalt temperatures ranging from 18°C to 23°C, most of the work focused on the SC1 front and SC0 rear solutions. As the track conditions and rider confidence gradually improved, most were able to try the two softer SCX and SCQ alternative rear solutions today. With the latter, already in the morning practice sessions, Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team – Yamaha) was just shy of one tenth of a second faster than the track record. WorldSSP · The standard SC1 front was chosen by all three of the riders who finished on the podium. Race winner Adrian Huertas and third-place finisher Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team – Ducati) combined it with the standard SCX at the rear, whereas second-place finisher Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing – Yamaha) preferred the SC0. In addition to them, 23 riders went with the standard SC1 and 6 opted for the development SC1 in D0444 specification tyre for the front. At the rear, a total of 23 riders started the race with the standard SC0, and 9 with the standard SCX. · The qualifying time of 1’28,322 that earned Adrian Huertas (Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Team – Ducati) pole position was achieved using the SC1 front and the SCX rear, also setting the new all-time track lap record for the category, nearly 7 tenths faster than the previous record set by Nicolò Bulega in 2023. Already in the morning FP1 session, using the same tyre combination, Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team – Ducati) had dropped below the 1’29 mark, breaking it by just over a tenth of a second. |