Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2025 UK WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Toprak Razgatlioglu, 2025 UK WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 UK WorldSBK: Race 1 As It Happened

Live coverage of Race 1 from the UK WorldSBK at Donington.

Race 1 for the seventh round of the 2025 Superbike World Championship, the UK WorldSBK, is set to get underway at 15:00 local time.

Nicolo Bulega was fastest on Friday, but Alex Lowes set the fastest time of the weekend on Saturday morning in FP3, in which Bulega was eighth.

Toprak Razgatlioglu comes into this weekend nine points behind Bulega in the championship, but has won at Donington nine times in WorldSBK. He was third-fastest in FP3, and fourth-fastest on Friday.

Razgatlioglu took pole position in Superpole this morning. Bulega and Lowes will start alongside him on the front row.

 

12 Jul 2025
10:56
Spoilers?

Scott Redding, Ryan Vickers, and Garrett Gerloff have all endured tough seasons so far, but all three have been solid so far this weekend.

Vickers and Redding were both in the top-10 yesterday, and Vickers was this morning, too, while Gerloff had his "best Friday" of 2025 yesterday, finishing fifth fastest. He was sixth this morning in FP3.

10:51
Favourites?

Tough to pick an absolute favourite for pole here.

Historically, Razgatlioglu is the strongest rider at Donington, but Bulega has been strong this weekend as well.

Plus, Petrucci and Sam Lowes have been fast on the satellite Ducatis, and Alex Lowes has topped both FP1 and FP3 already this weekend on the Bimota which scored its first front row start with Axel Bassani last time out at Misano.

10:47

Welcome to live coverage of the WorldSBK Superpole session from the UK Round at Donington. 

The 15-minute qualifying session is set to get underway in just over 10 minutes at 11:00 local time.