Alvaro Bautista takes over the 2022 World Superbike championship lead following a Sunday double in🌳 Aragon. 

Following his success in the Superpole race, Bautista started from pol⭕e for 🦂the first time since 2019. 

🎐However, it was the early-season ch﷽ampionship leader Jonathan Rea who led into turn one. 

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Continuing ✨their epic duel from the Superpole race, Michael Rinaldi got through on Razgatlioglu at turn four, before the reigning world champion responded one turn later. 

Rinaldi regained third at the beginning of lap two, while R⛎e꧂a fought back to take the lead from Bautista. 

Attempting to stay with the ♛top four, Andrea Locatelli suffered an early fall a☂t turn nine.

Just what the doctor ordered; Bautista took the lead as Rinaldi also came through 💧on Rea for second.

To Bautista’s advantage, Rinaldi ran wide at turn one which also p🍎ushed Rea off-track, thus allowing Razgatlioglu into P3. 

Behind the top six of Bautista, Rinaldi, Razgatlioglu, R꧋ea, Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, both factory Honda riders were battling hard as Xavi Vierge we﷽nt through on Iker Lecuona. Loris Baz then split the two Team HRC riders with a late move at turn 10. 

As Bautista pushed on the pace, Rinaldi was equal to it as he instead began to close in on the former MotoGP rider. Behind the top two was Rea who finally got through on Razgatlio🎀glu. 

Down in 23rd place, Scott𝄹 Redding’s weekend went from bad to very, very, worse after missiꦰng turn nine (lap eight) and turn one on the next lap around. 

On both occasions Redding sloღwed right down and began ﷺshouting at the bike in what was a visible sign of frustration.

Not to put the entire lack of performance on his shoulders, Redding did seem to have a proℱblem with the front-end of his M 1000 RR.

After beginning to lose pace, Rinaldi ran on at turn one which allowed ꩵRea back through and a chanc🍌e at closing down Bautista. 

Doing everything in his power to ♑clo🌼se in on Bautista, Rea ran off-track at turn one which was enough to let Bautista’s lead grow to two seconds.

Redding then brought his day 𒆙to an early end as technical issues continued to hamper the 2020 runner-up.

Kohta Nozane suffered a late fওall in what was another disastrous weekend for the ex-Japanese Superbike champion.

In a repeat of the sprin🦄t race final lap, Razgatlioglu and Rinaldi made small contact as the Yamaha man made his way up to third at turn one.

Razgatlioglu then pulled clear of Rinaldi, as&n💛bsp;did Bautista continueꦦd to do the same out front. 

Official Aragon WorldSBK Records 

Fastest Lap - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha 1m 48.267s. 

Most Wins - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki (9) 

2021 Aragon WorldSBK Race Winners 

Race 1 - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki

Superpole Race - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki

Race 2 - Scott Redding GBR Ducati

Bautista Wins the first World Superbike Superpole Race of 2022 in style!

After a lap one scrap with Razgatlioglu, Bautista took off at the front as h𝐆e built a five second gap come the end of the ten-lap race. 

The battle for second was incr☂edibly close as Rea, Razgatlioglu and Rinaldi battled hard throughout. 

Rinꦗaldi led the group with two laps to go, but after small contact with both Rea and Razgatlioglu, the Italian had to settle for fourth, ahead of Andrea Locatelli who narrowly got the better of Alex Lowes. 

BMW continued to struggle as Scott Redding was only 12th - one place behind Eugene Laverty - who pre-race said the latest version of the M🐓 1000 RR has a lot ꦚof potential, but that ‘we need to move quicker’ in the development process. 

Update: Michael Van Der Mark looks set to return for his home round a𓂃t Assen on April 22-24.