Razgatlioglu suffered the
same kind of tire drop as
everyone, and had nothing
left to push within the end
but earned a podium.
Lowes was fourth, win-
ning a great fight with his
good friend Leon Haslam.
In the championship
standings, Rea's two for-
ward and one back podium
steps in Portugal saw him
grow his already strong lead
to 91 points over Bautista,
490 to 399.
Next round is Magny
Cours September 27-29.
There are two more rounds after
that in Argentina and then Qatar.
WorldSSP
The crazy world of modern-day
WorldSSP racing has two certain-
ties, usually found in the shape
of championship leader Randy
Krummenacher (Bardahl Evan
Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha) and his
teammate Federico Caricasulo.
Others have beaten them on
occasion, but once again, this
was an internal battle that would
end up in a red flag, but the Bar-
dahl team still took the WorldSSP
championship three rounds early.
With Krummenacher riding with
a broken left big toe, it may have
been a difficult race for him be-
fore he even started, but having
a potential victory rubbed out by
a red flag must have stung even
more.
Caricasulo was finally given the
win on the countback rules. So
even though Krummenacher was
leading when the flag came out,
Caricasulo had led across the line
earlier by a smidgeon and was
awarded the race.
The importance was evident,
as Caricasulo is now only 10
points adrift with three rounds left.
The early fight was between
Caricasulo and Isaac Vinales (Kal-
lio Racing Yamaha) until the latter
slowed and then retired.
Lucas Mahias (Kawasaki
Puccetti Racing) had started his
weekend in relatively bad shape
but ended up finishing third and
only 0.312 seconds behind the
winner.
Raffaele De Rosa (MV Agusta
Reparto Corse) was again a
strong challenger, but it was a
leak from his bike that produced
the red flag after he had imitated
the flag-waving motion to the mar-
shals, as he realized something
was amiss.
With De Rosa out, Jules Cluzel
(GMT94 Yamaha) was fourth.
Krummenacher now has 193
points, Caricasulo 183 and Cluzel
is almost certainly out of champion-
ship-winning contention with 145.
Gordon Ritchie
WorldSBK
Race One
1. Jonathan Rea (Kaw)
2. Chaz Davies (Duc)
3. Michael van der Mark (Yam)
4. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
5. Leon Haslam (Kawasaki)
Superpole Race
1. Jonathan Rea (Kaw)
2. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
3. Alex Lowes (Yam)
4. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kaw)
5. Leon Haslam (Kaw)
Race Two
1. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
2. Jonathan Rea (Kaw)
3. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kaw)
4. Alex Lowes (Yam)
5. Leon Haslam (Kaw)
IN
THE
WIND
P44
Federico
Caricasulo (64)
scored a red-
flagged race win in
Supersport.
