The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship visited the Autodrom Most for the last round before the summer break and the action was intense as it was dramatic. For one rider, it meant he went into the break on a high after outscoring all his rivals by ending a 252-day wait for victory. Catch up on all the Race 1 and Race 2 HERE and watch highlights from a classic Tissot Superpole Race on YouTube – don’t forget to subscribe to the channel too!

Race 1 at the Autodrom Most was unpredictable after a rain shower shortly before the start mixed-up the tyre strategies and choices on the grid. The correct choice was to go with the intermediate tyres: lose time at the start but make up a whole heap of ground on your rivals when the wet-tyre runners started to struggle and would eventually come into the pits, adhering to the minimum pit intervention time of 58s. This is exactly what Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) did as he stormed to a first win of the season, and a first victory since Race 1 at Phillip Island last year. Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK) slashed Alvaro Bautista’s (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) Championship lead down to 54 points from 70, with the Spaniard starting on wets and then losing an additional 18s in the pitlane after a front tyre change problem.

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Source: WorldSBK.com