Superbike, Catalunya: Gara1 a Redding su Bassani meraviglia. Terzo Rinaldi e Toprak out!

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Gara bellissima condizionata in modo spettacolare dalla pioggia che non fa troppe vittime ma cambia, stravolge la classifica.
Una buona partenza non basta per finire davanti, una brutta partenza non punisce eccessivamente.
In un carosello di duelli e sorpassi, tutti miracolosamente puliti, le Ducati, moto equilibrate e potenti, la spuntano facilmente.
Sorpresa Redding, che vince ripartendo dalle retrovie, sorpresa Bassani, che spende anche qualche giro al comando, e sorpresa Rinaldi, terzo nonostante i problemi alla visiera del casco. Il crollo di Rea, quarto dopo aver dominato la gara, è beneficiato dalla rottura di Razgatlioglu, out con la sua Yamaha quando guidava con la gara in mano. Il resto è un grande canyon. Le BMW soffrono, le Honda annaspano e le seconde guide, tutte, subiscono. Eppure è spettacolo perché tutti, comunque sgomitano fino al traguardo.

Micro cronaca 

Al via Rea comanda dopo aver vinto un veloce duello con Razgatlioglu che fatica anche a contenere Bassani, efficacissimo sul bagnato.
I due lottano e Rea fugge… mentre alle loro spalle fa una bella gara van der Mark, poi Lowes, Rinaldi, Redding, Haslam, Sykes e Locatelli a chiudere i 10.
Due giri e Rea è preso. Fuga annullata. Il turco entra… ed entra anche Bassani quando mancano 8 giri al termine.
A meno 6 il turco rompe il motore e Bassani è in testa davanti a Rinaldi con il crollo di Rea che subisce anche da Redding.
Il britannico della Ducati è carico… e cerca Bassani attaccandolo ed entrando a meno 3… mentre dietro di lui non cambia nulla.

Vince Redding davanti a Bassani, Rinaldi, Rea, van der Mark, Lowes, Haslam, Sykes, Bautista, Davies a chiudere i 10.
Redding ci crede fino alla fine, Bassani meraviglia e Rea riceve un regalo da Razgatlioglu. Si rimane in testa al mondiale anche così.

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Redding
Ci crede fino alla fine e fa bene perché è il più maturo fra quelli rimasti in lizza. Una vittoria d’oro.
Voto 10

Bassani
Che gara magnifica. Chiunque avrebbe pagato per veder vincere un rookie… ma va bena anche così. Un serpende marino il nostro.
Rookie magnifico!
Voto 10

Rinaldi
Con il problema alla visiera che ha, fa anche troppo. Forse rinvenendo prima…
Voto 9

Rea
Subisce una sconfitta ma al suo avversario diretto va ben peggio. Massacra la gomma e paga il conto. Eppure…
Voto 7,5

van der Mark
Aggressivo e avvelanato ma tardivo nella sua rimonta.
Voto 8

Lowes
Qualunque cosa succeda, non ci stancheremo mai di dirlo, Lowes è sempre alle spalle di Rea. Un mistero matematico.
Voto 7,5

Haslam
Una tantum davanti a Bautista, il britannico guida bene e lotta come ai vecchi tempi. Sembra che la Honda cresca.
Voto 7,5

Sykes
La pioggia lo manda in tilt. Dopo una qualifica spettacolare parte male e fa tanta fatica.
Voto 7

Bautista
Mai della partita, oggi subisce il bagnato nonostante l’acqua dovrebbe favorire la Honda, ancora problematica dal punto di vista dell’elettronica.
Eppure va così.
Voto 6

Davies
Non più best independent, anzi molto lontano dal parco chiuso. Brutto vederlo così, lotano lontano dalla lotta. Le aspettative erano altre.
Voto 5

Assen, Race2: Rea wins the Loca game and takes the lead!

Rea Assen 2

Race 2 has only one emotion. The countdown featuring Rea in his hunt for Locatelli, positive hero of the day. That Johnny has to win, it is known, but everyone watches the Italian rookie's race greedily., hoping for someone to turn the tables even though they know it will not happen
Negative hero, on the other hand, Garret Gerloff, who pays dearly in the media for a normal race mistake by mistakenly pulling down the very colleague at the moment most beloved as Rea's only antagonist, that Razgatlioglu who sees a summit that until Saturday was his receding.
Crucified the American, who instead makes a normal mistake, however heavy, and should instead be evaluated for what he does right, every time.
Useless the rest, because Redding does not close any gap and all the others do nothing much. He saves himself, at least this time, Alvaro Bautista, who finishes a race and finishes it well., while Davies becomes aware that the podiums and victories he promised himself at the beginning of the championship are in danger of being a mirage.
With Rea the default ruler and Locatelli the revelation, we have to be content.

Race mini-report.
At the start of Race2 in the lead goes Locatelli after Gerloff touches Razgatlioglu and knocks him out.
He is followed by Rinaldi, then Lowes, Redding, Van Der Mark and Rea favanti to Sykes, Davies, Bautista and Mercado who rounds out the ten.

The race slides on the comeback of Rea who comes in behind Locatelli while behind him theAruba Ducati cancel out and allow Davies to arrive.
At minus 10 Locatelli is caught and later also passed by Redding. The Bergamasque, however, does not give up and still tries to get in on Redding.
As Sykes cancels out and Rinaldi plummets to eighth, race two at Assen ends in which Rea easily wins his third race in two days.
Rea, Redding, Locatelli, Davies, Bautista, Van Der Mark, Lowes, Rinaldi, Bassani and Haslam round out the ten.

 

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Rea
Total and absolute dominator. He also seems to be taking his time.
Rated 10

Redding
He does second but doesn't close any gap. Today it is clear that he cannot win any championship. Not without external upsets.
Rated 9

Locatelli
He goes for broke and throws away a Superpole Race podium, but makes up for it with interest. What happens to him, he deserves it all.
Rated 10

Davies
He makes up for it in a big way-or almost. But the truth is that he cannot be happy. At the beginning of the season there was talk of wins and podiums. Where are they?
Rated 7.5

Bautista
He brings home a fifth place for which, we are sure, he would sign every time. In race 2 he stays calm and doesn't throw away. He grows in experience in the finale.
Rated 7.5

Van der Mark
Not very lucky home race. But it got even worse for him over theend. I'd drop the winning resolutions.
grade 6

Lowes
The distance between Rea and Lowes. This bisgna quantify.
Rated 6

Rinaldi
Struggle, struggle, then plunge into the sea of problems.
Rated 5

Bassani
Slightly better than tenth ... however, the freshman can't make that step. Let's be clear, that's good enough as it is.
Rated 6.5

Haslam
Lazy and sleepy, he goes about his business. By now the feeling is that he is punching the clock.
Rated 5

Donington, Gara2: Razgatlioglu domina, Gerloff e Sykes sul podio. Rea si annulla, Ducati lontane!

Razgatlioglu2

Race 2 at Donington is boring from a technical standpoint but marks a turning point in the standings.
Jonathan Rea is no longer the fittest man in the circus. There is one confirmed star and his name is Razgatlioglu. Regardless of how it will end, right now the Turk is the iron man. And he doesn't even need to weigh it because it is the others who are stepping aside.
Also entering the elite is Gerloff and BMW , which, albeit momentarily and thanks to Sykes, sees some light.
Total darkness, however, for Ducati. So dark that the Bolognese should run in black livery. It's not so much the losing, which is scandalous, when the surrender effect that is in the air. There are too many races left to live it down so badly to the end. And while Rea is starting to suffer from the greed of not wanting to understand that he cannot always be first, others with the suffering have never stopped. Honda continues to gasp and the rest of the grid is virtually nonexistent. It's a world championship made up of six bikes, only a couple of which are capable of winning.

Mini Chronicle
At the start in the lead remains Rea but it is Razgatlioglu who starts as only he knows how to do, sgomitanto immediately with Sykes and Haslam, now former hosts. Redding is also incisive, in the 10 hoping he doesn't overdo it like in recent outings.
On the third lap Razgatlioglu is ready to thread Rea through. He does it comfortably and already takes a few meters.
After seven laps, it's still all the same up front while Haslam has collapsed, now a top ten risk.
On lap 12, hanging Rea goes out and restarts 20th.
With Razgatlioglu on the run and Gerloff firmly second, a duel for third place begins between Sykes and Redding that ends after two corners. The Ducati man catches up but makes a mistake and has to give up.

Razgatlioglu, Gerloff, Sykes, Redding, Van der Mark, Lowes, Davies, Rinaldi, Haslam Bautista.
It ends like this.

Report cards

Razgatlioglu
He is the one who has the most, strong with the renewal and the confidence everyone has in him. That in himself, however, never lacked. A champion on and off the track. At the moment, no one is like him.
Rated 10

Gerloff
He has patience and reaps the rewards. If someone would explain to him well that there is a future as a star for him, maybe he would waste less.
Or maybe not-but that's okay.
Rated 9.5

Sykes
He deserves the podium and more. He is the one who puts a patch on BMW 's shortcomings that seem to lie more in management than in the technical means. Sykes is always positive and reaps deserved rewards.
Rated 9.5

Redding
Positive race but not as a title contender. It is clear, however, that it is really Ducati that is lost here.
Rated 8

Van der Mark
He is one of those guys who can win at Donington. Yet he is not even a shadow of his teammate.
Rated 6

Lowes
You have to knock out Rea, greedy, to see Lowes first Kawasaki to the finish line.
Rated 6.5

Davies
I think it's clear by now that he doesn't have the package to win, partly because Ducati is lacking here in general.
Rated 6.5

Rinaldi
Undergoes and disappears--on the fringes of the top ten. The lights of Misano are now out.
Rated 5.5

Haslam
Strong at the start then wanes. Honda wanes and he also wanes who physically doesn't seem to be at his best.
Rating 5.5

Bautista
As above. Technical and physical suffering. Maybe Honda is really asking too much of his people.

Superbike, Donington: Razgatlioglu rides like he stole it. Rea beaten, Ducati buried!

Razgatlioglu

Pista leopardata, gara incidentata.
Va più o meno così fra cadute, lunghi, larghi e svarioni.
Eppure, a meno di stendersi come fa ormai regolarmente Redding, gli sbagli non cambiano le classifiche.
I valori rimangono quelli: Razgatlioglu e Rea sono gli unici a giocare davvero la partita, le BMW si sgretolano come giganti d’argilla e Ducati saluta definitivamente il mondiale con lo zero di Redding e le gare orribili di Rinaldi e Davies, che le prendono anche dal privatissimo Bassani.
Il resto, o non c’è, o non cambia. Gerloff spreca, gli altri annaspano. E in più ci sono anche i doppiati.
Ormai in Superbike nemmeno la pista a chiazze garantisce più lo spettacolo minimo. Tolti i due funamboli davanti, è una miseria.

MIni cronaca della gara.
Al via Razgatlioglu passa da 13° al 2° posto, subito alla ricerca di Gerloff ma il gap da colmare è di un secondo.
Mentre Rea sbanda e rischia di perdere il controllo, Redding vola davvero e chiude la gara.
Un giro è quello che serve al turco per passare il campione del mondo che poi sbaglia e terrorizza il pubblicoc con un taglio nell’erba.

Al quarto giro il turco è in fuga ma Rea non molla. Nonostante gli errori Van Der Mark non riesce ad afferrarlo ma le BKW stupiscono comunque anche grazie alla pista umida.
A seguire Sykes, Haslam, Lowes, Gerloff, Mahias, Bassanini e Locatelli a chiudere i dieci.
Bruttissima, invece, la situazione di Davies e Rinaldi.

A metà gara il vantaggio di Razgatlioglu è oltre i tre secondi mentre alle spalle di Rea, ben lontani, lottano Sykes, Lowes e Gerloff, con Van der Mark, fuori dai giochi per il podio.

A sette giri dalla fine, con un piede sul podio, Gerloff butta via tutto scivolando nell’erba. Riprende comnunque abbondantemente in top ten.
Finisce così: Razgatlioglu, Rea, Lowes, Sykes, Van Der Mark, Haslam, Gerloff,Bautista, Mahias, Bassani a chiudere i 10

Razgatlioglu
He drives like he stole it and makes it clear that in Yamaha they have to do what he says. And thank him.
He will close the race on lap 1.5. You may as well go to the beach.
Rated 10

Rea
He runs the best race he can for someone who is defeated and cannot defend himself.
In the end, he knows that on days like this, the smartest solution is to capitalize.
Rated 9

Lowes
By the law we know, he ends up behind his team leader. Nothing to say. Those are the values.
Rated 8.5

Sykes
Poor Tom finds himself squeezing blood from the turnips.
And he almost succeeds.
Rated 8.5

Van Der Mark
For Van Der Mark, same again, with the addition of a couple of mistakes without which he could perhaps have picked up a little more.
Rated 7.5

Haslam
This is really his home. He teaches us young and old.
Yet his race is a child of bad qualifying.
Rated 6.5

Gerloff
Rookie del giorno ma anche ingenuo della settimana.
Butta via un podio che è saldamente nelle sue mani.
Talento da sgrossare.
Voto 7,5

Bautista
Good thing he was the one throwing the world championships. His Honda is unmanageable, wheelies even in the pit box and dangling like a drunk.
The real race of the Honda men, is getting to the end.
Rated 6

Mahias
The Frenchman is growing steadily and is getting closer to the top. Again today, a small step.
Rated 7

Bassani
Un’altra ottima gara di Bassani, miglior Ducati all’arrivo.
Basterebbe già questo, eppure non è tutto.
Voto 8

Superbike, Estoril: all for Rea. Ducati self-defeating, Yamaha asleep!

Rea Estoril Win

The second day of the Estoril race sees staged replica
of the Ducati humiliation that occurred in MotoGp, with the aggravating factor that it starts earlier, it's double and it affects a bit of everyone other than Rea.

Indeed, at a track favorable to the Reds, the gifts to the opponents began as early as the superpole race, won by Rea, ahead of Razgatlioglu, Redding, Gerloff, Rinaldi, Lowes, Sykes, Laverty and Davies. And when you're working hard to get your opponent on the podium step every time, it's hard to play something big then.

Ma tutto questo è niente rispetto a quanto capitato in gara2, iniziata con l’aggressività incerta di Rinaldi, che a momenti mette out Gerloff, e proseguita con l’incertezza dell’Italiano di non andarsene, terminata con un errore dello stesso americano che ha messo poi fuori il romagnolo su Ducati.
Il resto sono stati solo errori, sprechi e colpi a vuoto che hanno consentito al nord irlandese, negativo l’anno scorso su questa pista, di portare a casa un’altra doppietta

Rea, Davies, Razgatlioglu, Lowes, Locatelli, Van Der Mark, Bautista, Sykes, Laverty, and Rabat round out the ten.

The chronicle of the race is also useless here, because what speaks for itself is the top ten at the finish.
The Ducati begin to trash another world championship and bring home a positive result only with Davies, who, however, one must be honest, has the only virtue in always believing in it. It is not enough to make up for the leftovers of those who fall in front of him or the predestined who do not materialize.
Yamaha themselves are black belts of waste. Razgatlioglu never brings home what he should while Gerloff always appears too aggressive.
But for that matter, there is no laughing matter at BMW either, where Van Der Mark is not playing anything serious and where Sykes has to scramble for the very private Laverty.
And Honda? As in MotoGP it lives a drama, as Bautista struggles against the windmills of bad qualifying and gearbox problems, and 75% of the time he lays down to make those comebacks that, as a professional, he demands of himself. Haslam is there punching the clock. Have you seen him in the race, you?

It really is a bad Superbike, which only intellectual dishonesty or partisan interests can get away with calling spectacular.
The screw-ups are the stuff of Paperissima and clip shows, not something to enjoy.
Professionals, on the track and at the wall, there are few, and only one is a full package.

Report cards

Rea
Already he is strong, consistent, and always a step above.
Give him gifts, too, when he's not at the top, and it goes the way of the last six years.
Rated 10

Davies
He always believes, and always tries.
Who knows if he still believes he has a package that is in any way comparable to the official one, and that he can really play something apart from doing better than Redding, the only striking achievement apparently within his reach.
Rated 8.5

Razgatlioglu
Wasteful Turk. Spectacular, impetuous, aggressive, yet so frothy in the reckoning. He places, he contends, but today he should have won. Instead he throws it all away with a jump start.
Rated 7.5

Lowes
Every time his job is to make everyone understand that the Kawasaki doesn't ride itself and is worth as much as he is, not as much as his partner is worth.
Rated 6.5

Locatelli
I was ready to criticize that, okay, get the bike to the top ten finish line, but you need a progression.
Here I am being served. To Locatelli only applause.
Rated 8.5

Van Der Mark
The world proclamations attributed to BMW at the beginning of the season usually make people laugh after four to five races. This year they started making people laugh as early as Aragon.
Rated 6

Bautista
This thing of starting almost last and finishing well is exciting but it risks wearing the rider down.
When you see what he tries to squeeze out of the turnip that is Honda, you realize how much he could have squeezed out of a Ducati had he been given another chance. Much to the chagrin of the rosy desmo and the loudmouth Redding, who eleven wins in a row will never see it.
Rated 7.5

Sykes
He should be doing better than his teammate, but instead the BMW paucity is engulfing him as well.
Rating 5.5

Laverty
With the most private BMW of the lot, the Irishman is waking up and starting to show some talent.
Rated 6.5

Rabat
Pretty sad to see him like this. But it's not like the Ducati trend is that much better. Let's wait.
Rated 6

Supebike, Aragon race1: Stellar Rea against cosmic nothingness!

rea 100

Other than the laps removed by regulation. The Kawasaki should be taken out of gear.
With the aggravation that it's not even Rea alone anymore who's doing the heavy lifting but also Lowes, who when he's not messing around is strong for real. Although we all know that he is not consistent.

Behind them, cosmic nothingness with flashes of blue. That's what we're likely to see all season if the Ducati, inadequate today even with Davies, don't give themselves an absolute wake-up call. So many bikes on the track, and some even with the illusion of being official, are not needed.
It is not the greens that need to be downsized but it is the pack that needs to be shaken up.
Of the bad things in race1 we see a lot more.
There are the BMW that are only holding on (gasping) with Sykes, because the others are just starring in a horror movie. As soon as the Briton loses his patience, we will see some good things.
Japanese horror, on the other hand, for Honda. Qualifying is no use if you are inconsistent and inconclusive in the race.

Much applause at the triple-digit victory for the nord Irishman,who double Bayliss and Fogarty who, however, were battling on other scenarios, with other opponents and other packages.

Rea is yes a space pilot, but he is confronted with cosmic nothingness. Between satellites with very slow orbits and debris like the kind we now have littering space around the earth with, winning so much is a decidedly more possible feat.
Give them opponents, not accomplices to quota 100 from a pension perspective.
And thank you for castrating Superbike with the shears of regulatory and format choices that are as stupid as they come.

Microchronicle of the race
Those who had a good time mean that they help themselves to products, and it is time for them to explain which ones.
The race does not exist. Kawasakis fly and only Razgaglioglu offers the feeling that there is some war.
Never protagonists are the Ducati and everyone else, but at least the reds exist. The rest are unaccounted for.
You want the record, then: Rea leaves and on the last lap Lowes and Razgatlioglu battle a little bit. That's really all there is to it.
Rea makes 100 ahead of Lowes, Razgatlioglu, Redding, Davies, Sykes, Rinaldi, Haslam, Gerloff, Locatelli to close out the 10

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Rea
Ungovernable. Strong with the weak and ends up here with victory n100.
Rated 10

Lowes
Concrete one-off. With the best bike. Other story over, pe today.
Rated 9

Razgatlioglu
The Turk is there and he is strong. Yamaha is also the n2 power.
Rated 8.5

Redding
The bombshell of the lineup with what should be the title contender. And he doesn't appear to be.
Rated 7

Davies
All those predicted soffisfactions for him do not come even on the track where he should be strongest of all.
Hard to think, while hoping for it, that the rest of the season will be one of leading ones.His is a negatively unattractive result.
Rated 6

Sykes
One man on an inadequate bike run by a team that seems even more inadequate. Can only hope in sprint races.
Rated 6.5.

Rinaldi
He replaced Davies. Make that we are still on our first outing and cannot be judged negatively.
Rated 6

Haslam
I'm in the three, he had said. It didn't go. But at least he finished on his feet.
Rated 6

Locatelli
Here's the good thing. Top ten debut on a bike that is not the very latest. A note of blue dressed in blue.
Rated 8