Spaniard finished second, 1.133
seconds back in second place,
with Montella once again third.
A great ride for Bassani saw
him fourth, although he was 4.5
seconds behind Montella.
A rare tech breakdown saw
Alex Lowes suddenly slow and
then stop out on track, losing his
chance of a top five placing.
The second long race, held in
even hotter conditions than the
first on Saturday, would end up
showing us all a mirror image of
the other podiums—Bulega, Lec
-
uona and Montella—but this time
around that was only because
Bassani fell on lap 18 after being
third for most of the race.
A non-Ducati podium perfor
-
mance would be the first since
Oliveira and BMW's in race one in
Hungary.
Garrett Gerloff (Kawasaki
Racing Team) had a tough race
meeting on the same weekend
he announced an extension of
his contract with the Puccetti-run
Kawasaki team. The Texan fell on
his Superpole outlap and started
from way back in each race. His
race results read 14-14-12.
"That was a difficult weekend,"
said Gerloff on Sunday. "I really
wish I could say that it wasn't,
but after crashing in the first lap
of Superpole qualifying and not
having a time set, then starting
from the back row of the grid, it
made my life way more difficult
than it should have been. I am
really sorry to the team because
this is their home round and
they had all their sponsors here.
There was a really cool atmo
-
sphere, and I hope everybody
really enjoyed it, but I feel bad
that we had one of our worst on-
track weekends on the weekend
that they all came along. I hope
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After his stinging
defeat in the first
WorldSSP race, Albert
Arenas (75) made up
for it with the gold in
race two.
Bruno Ieraci (18) gave Triumph a first
win in the opening WorldSPB race.
