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Cycle News 2019 Issue 39 October 1

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best action, but what everyone will remember most is that this is where Jonathan Rea made his- tory as unquestionably the most successful WorldSBK racer ever. WorldSSP The two riders who have al- most completely dominated the WorldSSP Championship will go into the final two rounds of the year with the same margin of points gap—10—as they entered this one, as their unerring consistency de- serted them at runaway pace. First, while sitting behind the top group, championship leader Randy Krummenacher (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha) suffered a huge highside leav- ing the way clear for Federico Caricasulo (Bardahl Evan Bros. WorldSSP Yamaha) to get clear and into his own virtual champion- ship lead. But then Caricasulo ended up on his butt, not one once but twice—crashing out of the lead, remounting and then falling again shortly afterwards. This left a special opportunity for two French riders, plus some others. Jules Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha) led but his pace dropped and dropped to the point where he finished sixth. Only 3.205 sec- onds down but that was a lifetime in this race, as it is in most other WorldSSP contests in 2019. The other French rider proved to be the actual winner, Lucas Ma- hias (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing). He was the first Kawasaki race winner in this division since 2017. First-time podium man Isaac Vinales (Kallio Racing Yamaha) was second and another Kawasaki man, Ayrton Badovini (Team Peder- cini Racing Kawasaki) was third. "There were a lot of questions for us at the beginning of the year but I worked a lot to understand the bike and finally I have come back to the first position," said Mahias. "It is very nice to win in front of the people from my own country and it was especially good because this is my first time to win a race in France." Raffaele De Rosa (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) was fourth and Hikari Okubo (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) fifth, but the latter only just over a second from a podium finish. In the overall championship points Krummenacher has 193, Caricasulo 183, Cluzel 155 and Mahias 123. Only Cluzel can hold back the Bardahl boys, but that chance looks slim. CN WorldSBK Race One 1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kaw) 2. Jonathan Rea (Kaw) 3. Tom Sykes (BMW) 4. Loris Baz (Yam) 5. Alvaro Bautista (Duc) WorldSBK Race Two 1. Jonathan Rea (Kaw) 2. Michael van der Mark (Yam) 3. Alex Lowes (Yam) 4. Chaz Davies (Duc) 5. Loris Baz (Yam) WorldSBK Superpole Race 1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kaw) 2. Jonathan Rea (Kaw) 3. Michael van der Mark (Yam) 4. Chaz Davies (Duc) 5. Alvaro Bautista (Duc) WorldSSP Race 1. Lucas Mahias (Kaw) 2. Isaac Vinales (Yam) 3. Ayrton Badovini (Kaw) 4. Raffaele De Rosa (MV) 5. Hikari Okubo (Kaw) IN THE WIND P58 Lucas Mahias finally returned to the winner's podium in France.

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