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VerdNatura Kawasaki) seventh
and top Independent.
In the early championship rank-
ings, Rea's no score has made it
a strange-looking affair in some
ways, but Lowes has 51 points,
Redding 39, Razgatlioglu 34,
was seen by most as better than
expected. It is still not really race-
ready in its total setup package,
but it appears fast and sleek and
is obviously laden with potential.
Special mention has to go to
Maximilian Scheib (Orelac Racing
Third, again, was Redding, and
he was just 0.849 seconds back,
out of push and angle in the final
corners.
In fifth, Davies was aggres-
sive but suffered a high-speed
mechanical failure at Stoner
Corner, forcing Baz onto the
grass before entering turn four.
The Frenchman somehow stayed
on and didn't knock anyone off
and would go on to finish eighth.
Razgatlioglu's weekend record
read, a win, then a second and
finally a no-score.
With Bautista sixth again,
4.322 seconds from the winner
and even a crash from Haslam as
he tried to pass Rinaldi in des-
peration after being 14th on lap
one, you have to say that the first
time out for the HRC Honda team
Alvaro Bautista's Honda debut was good,
but not great, considering the hype.
Garrett Gerloff rode impressively in race one but
blistered his tire. A fall on Sunday morning, however,
would rule him out for the rest of the meeting.
