Toprak Razgatlioglu, Nicolo Bulega, 2025 Estoril WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Estoril WorldSBK: Race 2 As It Happened

Live coverage of Race 2 from the Estoril WorldSBK at Circuito Estoril.

Sunday at the Estoril WorldSBK could see Toprak Razgatlioglu crowned champion in Race 2, which is set to start at 14:00 local time.

Razgatlioglu will start from pole position and has won both races so far this weekend. To clinch the title, he needs to outscore Nicolo Bulega by 18 points this afternoon.

Alvaro Bautista will complete the front row and has finished third in both races so far this weekend. The Spanish is now eight points behind the absent Danilo Petrucci and three points ahead of Andrea Locatelli - who has been fourth in both races so far - in the battle for third in the standings.

Jonathan Rea was also in the podium battle yesterday but encountered a brake issue in the second half of the race and finished sixth in the end. This morning, he crashed in the Superpole Race while fifth behind Locatelli.

As well as Danilo Petrucci, there will be no Sam Lowes on the grid today after he was ruled unfit yesterday due to a chest contusion sustained before the Estoril weekend. After Race 1, he's only four points ahead of Alex Lowes in the contest for sixth in the standings.

Alex Whitworth

12 Oct 2025

11:01

Superpole Race start

Lights out in Estoril and the Superpole Race is underway.

Holeshot for Bulega, then Bautista and Razgatlioglu.

10:58

Warm-up lap

Warm-up lap is underway in Estoril. 10 laps of the Superpole Race is coming up.

10:55

Battle for third

Alvaro Bautista was clearly third-best yesterday - 12 seconds behind Bulega, but two seconds ahead of Andrea Locatelli in fourth.

Both Bautista and Locatelli are aiming for third place in the standings in the closing stages of this season, helped now by the absence of Danilo Petrucci, who still holds that bronze medal position but who was declared unfit and ruled out of the weekend on Friday morning due to the fractured metacarpal he sustained while training since Aragon.

Jonathan Rea was also in podium contention yesterday until a brake issue cost him confidence and lap time. He'll also feel that a 10-lap dash is his best shot at a rostrum finish and has shown pace to put himself in the window for that all weekend. It'd be his first of the season if he could manage it.

Alex Lowes also a podium contender for Bimota, although he didn't quite have the pace of Locatelli in Race 1.

10:52

Razgatlioglu vs Bulega

The clear favourites for this one are, as usual, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Nicolo Bulega.

They proved to have comparable pace over 20 laps yesterday afternoon. Cooler conditions this morning that should favour Razgatlioglu, but Bulega was victorious over 10 laps on Sunday morning 12 months ago.

If Razgatlioglu ends this race more than 37 points clear of Bulega, he can win the title in Race 2, mathematically. His current gap is 41 over the Italian.

10:46

Welcome to live coverage of today's WorldSBK action from Estoril - an potentially title-deciding day!

The Superpole Race will be coming up in around 15 minutes at 11:00 local time.