Estoril to host penultimate WorldSBK round after Hungary cancelation

Estoril will ❀host the penultimate round of the 2024 WorldSBK season following news that the inaugural Hungarian round has been dropped.

Estoril WorldSBK
Estoril WorldSBK

The Balaton Park circuit in☂ Hungary was set to host round eight of the 12-round WorldSBK campaign.

But due to work not being completed in time, Est🅠oril will now take over as the penultimate round as▨ a replacement.

Estoril will hos꧂t round 11 of the championshi🎃p before riders head to Jerez for the season-finale.

The Balaton Park was part of two circuits set to host WorldSBK for the first time ever in 2024, the other being Cremona which will stage rou🅠nd ten🐬 of the campaign on September 20-22.

Estoril will follow Cremona and is scheduled for October 11-13, one♔ week prior to the Spanish round at Jerez.

A ve🔴nue that is used to holding WorldSBK races, Estoril was last on the cale🐓ndar in 2022.

Alvaro Bautista won Race 1 before Jonathan Rea co🌜mpleted a Sunday double with vict💟ories ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu and eventual world champion Bautista.

All three races saw t♌he le♏ad duo separated by less than two tenths, with the final corner providing dramatic racing in all three.

In Race 1 Bautista powered his Panigale V4 R past Razgatlioglu coming out of the final corner, while Rea managed to hold ꧒off Razgatlioglu and Bauti🐲sta with brilliant final laps in both Sunday races.

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