Reigning World Superbike champion Toprꦡak Razgatlioglu achieved his 'dream' of a perfect sweep of Donington Park victories, absorbing a sustained onslaught from Jonathan Rea before pulling clear for victory number three in the final rac꧋e of the weekend.

Rea's late-race struggles c🧸ontinued when title leader Alvaro Bautista snatched second place, the Ducati rider thus achieving a welcome morale boost by pushing his world championship lead back up to 17-points after losing ground to Rea in the previous pair of races.

Meanwhile, Razgat𒐪lioglu is firmly back in the championship hunt, having slashed the deficit to Bautista from 79 to 43-points over the course of the Donington weekend, with seven rounds (and 21 races) still to go.

Once again it was Razgatlioglu from Rea into turn one, while Baut🔜ista made a strong start for third and Scott Redding - fr꧙esh from his first BMW podium in the Superpole race - wrestling his way past Michael Rinaldi for fourth.

Struggling for a set-up in the heat, Rea had been unable to attack Razgatlioglu in the previou🍌s two encouꦬnters.

But the Ulsterman came out swinging in the final outing - hi🍌s intentions immediately clear by drawing alongside Razgatlioglu into the Fogarty Esses, forcing the Turkish💃 star to use all his braking prowess to maintain the lead.

🧔The #65 sliced past the Yama🦹ha on the exit of the Esses next time around, but Razgatlioglu held firm at the Melbourne Loop - all of which allowed Bautista to close in on the duo.

Rea's superior pace through Coppice, onto the back straight and into the Esses, continued to b🅠e a concern for Razgatlioglu, who was unable to shake off the six-time world champion and forced to make another late braking lunge to maintain his lead at the 'Loop.

But with 16 laps to go Rea also had Bautista to consider, the 🌌Ducati rider now within striking distance - with Redding, Rinaldi and Lowes d♎isputing fourth to sixth not far behind.

Razgatlioglu's valiant defence began to pay off with 10 laps remaining, when the world champion finally began chiselling aღ few tenths away from Rea.

That soon turned into a 1.2s lead, with Bautista - who feared his toughest weekend of the 🦹season on the Panigale even before crashing out of race one and injuring his hand - then demoting a fading Rea to third with just over four laps to go.

Bautista's team-mate Rinaldi was also not far from Rea as the chequered flag🦄 waved, while earlier podium finishers Redding and Lo🐻wes completed the top six.

BSB champion Tarran Mackenzie, demওoted five places on the grid for hitting the back of Xavi Vierge in the Superpole race, finished 15th.