Race 2 at the 2025 Aragon WorldSBK is due to start at 14:00 local time this afternoon over 18 laps.
Nicolo Bulega starts on pole position after winning this morning's Superpole Race. Toprak Razgatlioglu and Alvaro Bautista join him on the front row.
Razgatlioglu took victory yesterday from second on the grid, the loss to Bulega today was the first for him since May. He holds a 41-point lead over the Italian.
Sam Lowes completed Race 1's podium and starts fifth. Andrea Iannone and Alex Lowes complete the second row.
Axel Bassani will start 12th this afternoon after going from last to eighth in Race 1 following a back-of-the-grid penalty for ignoring yellow flags in FP2. He finished 11th this morning.
Immediately after the end of Race 2, Yamaha has released a statement announcing that it has signed Xavi Vierge to partner Andrea Locatelli at its factory WorldSBK team for 2026.
The Spaniard will replace the retiring Jonathan Rea.
Full story here.
Victory for Nicolo Bulega in Race 2 at Aragon, he doubles up on Sunday.
P2 again for Razgatlioglu, Bautista completes the podium.
Iannone secures fourth from Rea, then Alex Lowes, Locatelli, Petrucci, Bassani, and Vierge complete the top-10.
Late crash for van der Mark, turn 16 on the penultimate lap. He was seventh and was able to walk away.
Bulega with over 2s heading onto the final lap.
About 1s between Razgatlioglu and Bautista.
iannone escaping with fourth, Rea no longer under pressure from Lowes because the Marc VDS rider has crashed at turn 14.
Two laps to go now and the race at the front is done. Bautista keeping some pressure on Razgatlioglu.
Battle for fourth still raging. Iannone has it for now over Rea, Sam Lowes also right there in that battle.
4 laps to go, 1.5s between the front two, a better lap for Razgatlioglu that time but only by a tenth or so.
1.6s now between the front two, Razgatlioglu has 1.3s behind him to Bautista with five to go.
Razgatlioglu wide into turn eight, he's not closing this gap down. His battle might be for second with Bautista now.
1.3s between the leaders after that mistake from Razgatlioglu. He's closer to Bautista than his teammate now.
Zaidi has crashed out, that's his first DNF of the season.
Bulega defensive at turn seven, Razgatlioglu wasn't expecting it and he's run wide, lost a lot of time in that the BMW rider.
Bahattin Sofuoglu has crashed at turn 12. He's walked away.
Bulega makes that inside move at the last two corners again to lead onto lap 12.
Razgatlioglu back to the front at turn seven, missed the corner pretty bad that time. Check over the shoulder for Bulega and he's looking at 2.4s back to Bautista, who is now 3s clear of Rea.
Razgatlioglu wide again at turn 16 and that's an easy pass for Bulega.
Razgatlioglu leads again at turn 15, Bulega leads again over the line. You know the drill by now.
This time, Razgatlioglu back to the front at turn one.
And Bulega comes straight back at turn 12, then Razgatlioglu passes at turn 14.
At 16, you guessed it, Bulega retakes the lead.
Razgatlioglu back to the front at turn seven. Coming towards 10 to go now and it seems like we might be here to the finish.
Razgatlioglu came from so far back to make the turn 15 pass that time, that was unreal.
Bulega turns underneath him in the final couple of corners and leads into lap seven.
Bulega riding very well, but fastest lap of the race that time for Razgatlioglu and the gap is 0.3s.
Fastest lap again for Bulega on lap five and he has almost 0.5s now.
Rea still running in fourth, kind of staying with Bautista and pulling away from Iannone etc behind. A great ride from the Yamaha man. Could he even get on the podium?
Razgatlioglu wide at turn 16 as Bulega makes his move there again. Fastest lap for Bulega and he has a few tenths thanks to that mistake from Razgatlioglu.
Rea now up to fourth ahead of Iannone. Lowes, Locatelli, Sam Lowes, Petrucci, and van der Mark all queuing up behind Iannone.
Bautista up to third behind, passed Iannone at the first corner it looks like.
