Alvaro Bautista says he was more controlled and relaxed during his fiery WorldSBK battles with Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea in 2022, while also alluding to Superbike machinery allowing the rider to fight in a different way than MotoGP.
A six-time WorldSBK champion and the greatest to ever race Superbike machinery, Jonathan Rea has not been without his challengers, one of which could leave him ‘intimidated’ during a last-lap battle.
After making just one mistake throughout the entire 2022 WorldSBK season, new world champion Alvaro Bautista answered critics who thought mistakes would continue to happen like his first season with Ducati in 2019.
With his chances of retaining the WorldSBK Championship on the rocks, Toprak Razgatlioglu has brought up the idea of technical issues potentially being the most likely way for the Yamaha rider to claw his way closer to Alvaro Bautista.
Alvaro Bautista dominated the first WorldSBK race of the Catalan weekend, while Toprak Razgatlioglu suffered an unexpected drop after pushing his rear tyre ‘too much’ to try and keep pace with the Ducati rider.
Toprak Razgatlioglu feels he achieved his 'dream' of a perfect sweep of three WorldSBK wins in one weekend despite being controversally stripped of the Superpole race victory; 'For me, I won the race'.
Not even the weather can halt Jonathan Rea's charge towards a sixth WorldSBK Championship title as a tenth win in the wet at Magny-Cours inches him closer to another crown
Loris Baz earmarks himself as the rider to beat in Superpole at a wet Magny-Cours by topping the WorldSBK FP3 session, while Jonathan Rea suffers a fall
Jonathan Rea tees up his sixth WorldSBK Championship title, needing to out-score Scott Redding by 11 points in Magny-Cours to get the job done with a round in hand
Jonathan Rea says sealing his fifth World Superbike title at Magny-Cours came as a total shock having produced one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the series’ history.