The reigning World Champion was back to his winning ways in all three races. In WorldSSP it’s a double win for Aegerter who increases his championship lead. For the first time this season, the rear SCQ was the undisputed protagonist of the 10 laps in the Superpole Race held on Sunday morning. In fact, no fewer than 16 out of the 25 riders on the grid chose to use it. These included basically all the Kawasaki, Yamaha, and BMW riders, whereas the Ducati riders (including Álvaro Bautista) and the Honda riders opted for the SCX, the same solution already used in Race 1. Choices for the rear, on the other hand, remained relative to each rider’s style, which is why some opted for the standard SC1 (like defending World Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu) whilst others preferred the A0674 SC1 development tyre (like Rea, Lowes, Redding, and Bautista). Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) reiterated his performance yesterday in Race 1, also taking the Superpole Race ahead of Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK). Scott Redding (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team), third across the line, took home his first podium position with BMW.
For Race 2, the riders confirmed their tyre choices from Race 1, so all were on the SCX at the rear, whereas different choices were made for the front. Once again in this race, Toprak Razgatlioglu proved to be uncatchable, but Jonathan Rea and Álvaro Bautista were certainly not standing by watching and this final race of the weekend was no walk in the park for the Turkish Yamaha rider. In the end, he managed to win but with an advantage of just over one second ahead of the Spanish Ducati rider and 2.5 seconds ahead of Rea.
There were few surprises for the second Supersport race of the weekend in terms of both tyres and race results. As happened yesterday in Race 1, the front SC1 and the rear SCX confirmed their status as the ideal compounds for this track and the recorded temperatures, therefore confirmed by all the riders for Race 2 as well. The winner was also the same: Dominique Aegerter (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha) took his ninth straight victory of the season, leaving Donington Park with a nice double win. After the one he took yesterday, it was another nice second place for Lorenzo Baldassarri (Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha Team), whereas Nicolò Bulega (Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Team) rounded out the podium after his unfortunate result in Race 1.
