Magny-Cours World Superbike Race (1) results: Toprak wins, Bautista hits trouble

Results from Race 1, round nine of the 2023 World Superbike championship at Magny-Cours, France.

09 Sep 2023

Toprak Razgatlioglu, Yamaha World Superbike Magny-Cours 2023

Starting from pole for the first time in his Superbike career, Gerloff made a good start although he was passed by Alvaro Bautista into turn one.

Gerloff was then passed by Michael Ruben Rinaldi at turn three before Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea went both sides of the American.

Razgatlioglu was the only rider to make the move stick before picking off Rinaldi who was held up in sector four by Bautista.

Bautista then lost the lead on lap two as Razgatlioglu swooped to the inside at turn 13.

Then came huge drama as Bautista pulled up on the exit of turn five with an apparent issue. However, it was terminal for the world champion as he managed to get back up to speed afte rlosing ten seconds.

With Bautista out of contention, Razgatlioglu was unable to break clear as he came under intense pressure from Rinaldi on back-to-back laps.

With 16 laps to go Rinaldi finally made his move stick on Razgatlioglu. Behind the leading duo was Rea who managed to overtake Gerloff at turn five.

As the top two pulled clear of Rea, series leader Bautista was making progress back through the pack after overtaking Bradley Ray for P17 with 12 laps to go.

Showing off his incredible braking prowess, Razgatlioglu challenged for the lead again with 9 laps to go as he came from miles back to overtake Rinaldi.

But the factory Ducati rider got a great run out of the hairpin and regained the lead.

Two laps later and the battling continued as Razgatlioglu failed with moves at turns five and 10. Another move came at turn 12 which led to Rinaldi going off circuit before rejoining and nearly colliding with the Yamaha rider when he re-entered the track.

Razgatlioglu then dropped Rinaldi after having a full lap in the lead of the race.

2023 World Superbike Magny-Cours, France - Race (1) Results
Pos	Rider	Nat	Team	Time
1	Toprak Razgatlioglu	TUR	Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK	20 Laps
2	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	ITA	Aruba.It Racing Ducati	+2.656s
3	Jonathan Rea	GBR	Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK	+4.773s
4	Garrett Gerloff	USA	Bonovo Action BMW	+6.266s
5	Danilo Petrucci	ITA	Barni Spark Racing Team	+8.897s
6	Andrea Locatelli	ITA	Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK	+9.740s
7	Scott Redding	GBR	ROKIT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	+9.916s
8	Alex Lowes	GBR	Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK	+10.760s
9	Philipp Oettl	GER	GoEleven Ducati	+12.632s
10	Alvaro Bautista	SPA	Aruba.It Racing Ducati	+13.250s
11	Dominique Aegerter	SWI	GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team	+14.921s
12	Xavi Vierge	SPA	Team HRC WorldSBK	+21.932s
13	Loris Baz	FRA	Bonovo Action BMW	+22.213s
14	Iker Lecuona	SPA	Team HRC WorldSBK	+24.004s
15	Remy Gardner	AUS	GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team	+25.699s
16	Michael Van Der Mark	NED	ROKIT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	+31.246s
17	Axel Bassani	ITA	Motocorsa Ducati	+35.579s
18	Hafizh Syahrin	MAL	PETRONAS MIE Racing HONDA Racing	+55.958s
19	Lucas Mahias	FRA	Puccetti Kawasaki	+57.052s
20	Oliver Konig	CZE	Orelac Racing Kawasaki	+1'01.687s
21	Hannes Soomer	EST	PETRONAS MIE Racing HONDA Racing	+1'05.980s
22	Bradley Ray	GBR	Motoxracing Yamaha WorldSBK Team	DNF
23	Isaac Vinales	SPA	TPR by Vinales Racing	DNF
24	Lorenzo Baldassarri	ITA	GMT94 Yamaha	DNF

Magny-Cours WorldSBK record

Fastest lap - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki Racing Team 1:36.374s

2022 Race Winners

Race 1 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati

Superpole Race - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha

Race 2 - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha

The start to Race 1 was delayed due to technical issues, which resulted in an extra warm-up lap being completed before a reduced distance of 20 laps was confirmed.

Magny-Cours weekend schedule (UK time)

Friday

Free Practice 1 - 09:30-10:15

Free Practice 2 - 14:00-14:45

Saturday

Free Practice 3 - 08:00-08:30

Superpole - 10:10-10:25

Race 1 - 13:00

Sunday

Warm-up - 08:00-08:15

Superpole Race - 10:00

Race 2 - 14:15