Toprak Razgatlioğlu (Yamaha) and Álvaro Bautista (Ducati) divided the spoils of the Pirelli French round, the ninth round of the FIM World Superbike Championshipseason which was raced in Nevers Magny-Cours, France. After his Race 1 victory, the Yamaha rider also took the Superpole Race, but in Race 2 he was unable to maintain the pace of the Ducati rider who, taking the win, remains solidly in the championship lead with an advantage of 57 points over the Turkish rider.
Nicolò Bulega (Ducati) has an increasingly strong hold on the WorldSSP lead. Winning Race 2 as well gives him a brilliant double win (his fourth this year) and takes him to 11 victories and 358 championship points, a full 60 ahead of his nearest rival, Stefano Manzi (Yamaha).
It was a picture perfect weekend for Jeffrey Buis (MTM Kawasaki) in WorldSSP300. The Dutchman leaves Magny-Cours with a fantastic double win and, what’s more, as championship leader with 149 points and a 5-point advantage over Perez Gonzalez.
Satisfaction for Pirelli in the performance of the tyres, mostly standard, which had to reckon with much higher temperatures than in past races on this track.
