WIND
IN THE
P42
All three podium finishes in
WorldSBK contained the same
riders and order of finishing.
Not enough drive grip for To-
prak, who complained bitterly that
he needed his 2024 chassis back.
Bautista wants fewer kilos—he
said Bulega's bike is typically six
kilos lighter than his.
In the championship fight,
Bulega leads Razgatlioglu by 34
points, 198 to 164, with Bautista
on 125 and a luckless Andrea
Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha)—
who was 18th in race one, sev
-
enth in Superpole and eighth in
race two at his true local track—
fourth on 118 points.
Next round is at Autodrom
Most in Czechia on the May 16-
18 weekend.
WorldSSP
Once more, if you wanted
great racing and changing for
-
tunes inside the top places, you
went to the WorldSSP well to
draw deeply from the next-gener-
ation reservoir.
Ten Kate Yamaha R9 rider Ste-
fano Manzi once more showed
his quality in this class by winning
race one from the determined
Englishman, Tom-Booth Amos,
and his Triumph Street Triple.
Booth-Amos has been a sur
-
prise package in WorldSSP this
year, but his manager is one Jer-
emy McWilliams, who is happy
to tell anyone just how strong he
feels Booth-Amos's talent is.
A new and flatter rear shock
link for 2025 is the main (but not
only) performance upgrade the
UK-based team has made this
season.
Third in race one, and on a
podium for the first time on a
Ducati since his move to the
Italian-based Renzi Corse team,
was France's Valentin Debise.
And, man, was he happy about
it, punching the air and bouncing
off his mechanics inside the hal
-
lowed podium stockade.
In the second race, Jaume
Masia (Orelac Racing VerdNatura
Ducati) was even more deter-
mined to win than he had been
in a front-running try in race one.
But, again, he had to drop back,
although this time he got his
prized first podium finish, in third
place. Booth-Amos was a bat
-
Stefano Manzi
stretched out his
championship lead
in WorldSSP.
