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pin. Bautista said Baz used the paint on the inside curb to make a re-pass, Baz said Bautista had run wide then came back across, but the upshot was that Bautista no-scored and Baz took third— until a protest was upheld and Bautista was reinstated to third. Having fallen, Bautista did not get his podium back, but Andrea Locatelli got promoted to third. Garrett Gerloff left Portugal with sixth, eighth and fifth places on the GRT Yamaha. "I just didn't have a very good first couple laps," Gerloff said after race two. "Then I touched a wet spot in the last corner, and almost had the biggest crash of my life. I went from eighth or ninth back to 12th, because I had Mercado and a couple guys pass me. Then I just tried to put my head down and do some good laps. I felt like I was doing that and was able to catch some guys, but I just want a clean race where I don't make any mistakes and actually have a good ride." In the all-important champion- ship points, Razgatlioglu has 478, Rea 454, Redding 424. WorldSSP Unusually for this year, Domi- nique Aegerter (Ten Kate Ya- maha) did not win a race at a race meeting, but actually had his pre-race points advantage trimmed. Last time out he was missing having to race in MotoE when he should have been at Jerez. This time, he was third in race one in Portugal, but only fifth in race two, a race which his only real championship rival, Steven Odendaal (Evan Bros. Yamaha) won. It was Odendaal's first win since race one at Most, in early August. Odendaal was sixth on Satur- day, and after making very little ground up on the missing Aegert- er in the previous Jerez round, he went back and reset and looked like his old championship-chal- lenging self in race two. Aegerter ran off as he tried to get past a tough leading bunch in race two, he regained the track, and that settled him into fifth place. With Odendaal winning for the first time in ages, the race-one winner had been Jules Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha) who had not headed up a race in this class since Argentina in 2019. He took the Superpole win, so his pace was there, but his victory was as emphatic as it could be in a Satur- day contest with less than a sec- ond covering the top five riders. Manuel Gonzalez (ParkinGo Yamaha) was second then. In race two, behind Odendaal, Cluzel was a close second and Federico Caricasulo (Biblion Iberi- ca Motoxracing Yamaha) third. Aegerter takes a 54-point championship lead away with only 100 points left for anybody who can win all the four last races. Gordon Ritchie WORLDSBK RACE 1 1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yam) 2. Scott Redding (Duc) 3. Loris Baz (Duc) 4. Michael Rinaldi (Hon) 5. Leon Haslam (Hon) SUPERPOLE 1. Michael van der Mark (BMW) 2. Scott Redding (Duc) 3. Loris Baz (Duc) 4. Andrea Locatelli (Yam) 5. Alvaro Bautista (Hon) RACE 2 1. Jonathan Rea (Kaw) 2. Scott Reading (Duc) 3. Andrea Locatelli (Yam) 4. Loris Baz (Duc) 5. Garrett Gerloff (Yam) IN THE WIND P42 Michael van der Mark gave BMW its first win since 2013.