top six positions in the mono-
marque category.
Last year's bimota almost
took Alex Lowes to a podium at
Donington in 2025 (but for a rash
fall out in the lead), but this year
Lowes was seventh in race two,
and kind of expected to be down
there.
Top bimota and top non-Duca
-
ti, kudos to him, but he and all
others in the same
predicament
now have clearly had enough of
being blasted before they start.
Things would slightly attenu
-
ate on that score on Sunday at
Donington.
The second race of the week
-
end, the Superpole sprint race,
was won by
Bulega, his first at
Donington, as alluded to earlier,
but only because Lecuona had
fallen from the lead on lap two at
Goddards.
Montella led for a time, but
Bulega swept past to take the
win, with Montella 1.5 seconds
adrift.
Third was Lowes S, fourth an
improved Lowes A, fifth Axel
Bassani on the other BbKRT bike
and sixth was Baldassarri again.
Jonathan Rea took 10th place
on an HRC Honda.
In the final race of the week
-
end, again over 23 laps, Bulega
won his
second race of the day,
but Lecuona performed minor
miracles of passing and pres
-
sure to go from 10th to second
and
was just four seconds down
on Bulega.
Montella was third again, but
this time Bassani led Alex Lowes
home to take fourth place,
with Garrett Gerloff (Kawasaki
WorldSBK Team) sixth.
The American's weekend just
got better and better, as his bike
setup was optimized from ses
-
sion to session. Gerloff said, "It
was nice to
finish the weekend
pretty strongly here in Doning
-
ton. The team did an awesome
job, and we have
been changing
bike settings all weekend, chang
-
ing electronics and so on all
weekend. It is always
good when
we finish the weekend with the
best setup. I felt I was able to do
the best I could have done. Top
six is something we will take."
In the overall standings,
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Bulega bounced back and
won the Superpole race and
WorldSBK race two.
