As the lights went out, Alvaro Bautista made a briallint launch as he took the lead away🍌 from Jona🐈than Rea.

Further back there was a collision between Gar🌺rett Gerloff and Bradley Ray, which resulted in both riders going down.

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Gerloff managed to re-join the action while Michael Ruben Rinaldi also tumbled down the leaderboard. A mist🌳ake in sector three saw him run off the track as he dropped to last place.

His factory Ducati teammate Bautis🔯ta then made a mistake of his own which allowed Rea to take back the lead on lap twoꦿ. 

Bautista was then d𒅌emoted to third as a slow exit out of turn nine saw Razgatlioglu get close before performing a late-braking move at the Melbourne Loop. 

While Rea and Razgatlioglu pushed on out front, Bautista was not letting the two leaders get away, as he instead cl𒈔osed in to make it a leading trio. 

A three-time winner at Donington lౠast season, Razgatlioglu’s bid to make it back-to-back hat-tricks at the British round startedꦏ with a move on Rea at the same Melbourne Loop.

However, Rea regained the lead 𓆉on lap seven which allowed Bautista to get very close to the ༺Yamaha rider. 

Itℱ also helped the🉐 likes of Alex Lowes, Danilo Petrucci and Axel Bassani close in on the lead group.

As Razgatlioglu overtook Rea for a second time at the start of lap eight, R꧅ace 1 went from bad to worse for Bonovo Action BMW as Loris Baz retired.  

With Rea struggling for pace, Bautista pounced on the six-time world champion at turn nine, before immediately 𓂃closing down Razgatlio🏅glu.

Bautista’s charge then saw him regain the lead of the race on lap ni🦹ne, after using his supeioꦗr straight line speed around the outside of Razgatlioglu on the approach to turn nine.

Out front and facing very little pressure for the first time, Bautista then set the fastest lap of the race on lap 10. He repeated that🍷 feat on the next lap around as Razgatlioglu was finding it difficult to stick wit𒆙h the Ducati rider.

Despite keeping the gap at around si🐓x tenths, Razgatlioglu lost a bi♊g amount of time on lap 14 as Bautista’s lead grew to 1.2 seconds.

As Bauti൲sta continued his dominant showing by extedning his to over two seconds, Petrucci made a great move on Lowes to claim P4. 

Eye🌃ing his first WorldSBK podium, Petrucci then took four tenths out of Rea on lap 17 before finding more time on lap 18. 

Petrucci managed to get within three tenths of Rea but that was as good as it got f♚or the Italian as Rea extended his advantage in the final two laps.

Bautista's win is Ducati's first at Donington Park siওnce Carlos Checa in 2011.