Nicolo Bulega won his second WorldSBK race in the Sup🅷erpole Race at Magny-Cours, narrowly beating Alex Lowes.

Bulega led from the start♑ in tricky conditions. Damp patches remained from rain on Saturday and into Sunday morning, but the only logical tyre choice💟 was slicks.

The Italian and Lowes were eventually able to begin pullin🐬g away from the rest of the field at around half-distance, and would go on to decide victory between them.

Lowes had two real goes at making his way into the lead, but was squared off by B🌳ulega🎀 on both occasions, the first at turn five, the second at turn 13.

Bulega eventually sea♏led victory by 0.115 seconds, for his second win of the year after his debut win in ꦦRace 1 at Phillip Island.

Lowes took second place, ahead of Danilo Petrucci, who finished third but wh𒀰o at time of writing is under investig🦩ation for contact with Andrea Locatelli that left the Yamaha rider out of the race.

Fourth place went to Scott R♉edding, ahead of Xavi Vierge, Garrett Gerloff, Iker Lecuona, and Michael van der Mark; all of whom were in a race-long fight for the third position even🐻tually taken by Petrucci. Van der Mark held third for most of the race, but fell back towards the end.

Remy G♊ardner and Axel Bassani rounded out🙈 the top 10.

Jonathan Rea didn't 🍌take part in the race having been declared unfit after his Race 1 cr🎉ash.

Alvaro Bautista was aiming to꧑ secure himself a good grid position for Race 2, having qualified only 17th, in the Superpole Race. He started 16th thanks to Rea's absence, but crashed on the first lap while battling with Tarran Mackenzie, and was taken to the medical centre.