sneyder, third on the Reparto
Corse MV Agusta.
Championship points leader
Stefano Manzi (Pata Ten Kate
Racing Yamaha) went from the
fourth row of the grid in the 10th
spot to the race lead in no time
on Saturday in a full distance
18-lap race. He had to fight for
his race win to the very end, but
he was cunning enough to have
a five-tenths of a second advan
-
tage over second-placed rider
Masia and a full second over
another potential winner, third-
placed Can Oncu (Yamaha bLU
cRU Evan Bros Racing).
Valentin Debise (Renzi Corse
Ducati) missed out on the po
-
dium by 0.055 of a second, while
Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph
Factory Racing) placed fifth.
Race two was far from a cun-
ning plan for Manzi, as he lost
the front of the Yamaha with a
small pack of similarly fast rid
-
ers on his tail.
The second race win went to
Oncu as a result, with Masia a
close second and Debise third.
After Kaito Toba was spat off
his Honda in a very old-fashioned
highside, he lay trackside for long
enough for a red flag to be thrown.
That froze the results after 13
laps and allowed for yet another
rendition of the Turkish national
anthem in honor of Oncu.
Manzi's indiscretion in race
one counts for little as it stands
(as he retains the points lead),
especially as Tom Booth-Amos
crashed his Triumph—one of
many top riders to feel the heat
and concrete dust at Misano.
Marcel Schroetter, Lucas Mahias,
Corentin Perolari were among
several other riders who DNFed
out of the race through falls on
the greasy tarmac.
Manzi still leads by a strong
47 points over Oncu, 210 to 163,
with Bendsneyder third on 156.
Gordon Ritchie
WorldSBK Race One (Top 10)
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (BMW)
2. Nicolo Bulega (Duc)
3. Danilo Petrucci (Duc)
4. Alex Lowes (bim)
5. Andrea Locatelli (Yam)
6. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
7. Sam Lowes (Duc)
8. Yari Montella (Duc)
9. Iker Lecuona (Hon)
10. Scott Redding (Duc)
WorldSBK Superpole Race (Top 10)
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (BMW)
2. Alex Lowes (bim)
3. Andrea Locatelli (Yam)
4. Danilo Petrucci (Duc)
5. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
6. Sam Lowes (Duc)
7. Jonathan Rea (Yam)
8. Remy Gardner (Yam)
9. Iker Lecuona (Hon)
10. Xavi Vierge (Hon)
WorldSBK Race Two (Top 10)
1. Toprak Razgatlioglu (BMW)
2. Nicolo Bulega (Duc)
3. Alvaro Bautista (Duc)
4. Andrea Locatelli (Yam)
5. Danilo Petrucci (Duc)
6. Iker Lecuona (Hon)
7. Sam Lowes (Duc)
8. Garrett Gerloff (Kaw)
9. Xavi Vierge (Hon)
10. Michael Van Der Mark (BMW)
WIND
IN THE
P40
Alex Lowes (22)
chases Razgatlioglu.
The Brit held on
for bimota's first
WorldSBK podium
in 25 years in the
Superpole race.
