Alvaro Bautista has taken victory for the 12th time in 13 World Superbike races this season after another dominant display🍬 in front of D꧑ucati's home fans.

T♍here was drama before the five lights went out as Bradley Ray suffered a problem on the grid. Yellow flags were waved as a result before a very small delay.

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Once the race was set to get underway for a second time, a new race distance of 20 laps instead of 21🐠 was confirmed.

Keen to break up Bautista’s rhythm at the start, Toprak꧃ Razgatlioglu instead lost secons pot to Rinaldi before attempting a obld move around the outside of turn four.

After initially getting ahead, Rzzgatlioglu was then stood up on the entry to turn five by Riꦓnaldi as the Italian swooped back through.

Come the end of the opening lap both factory Ducatis stretched clear of Razgatlioglu, while Axel B♔assani was harassing Jonathan Rea for P5. 

ꦅAfter several failed overtakes, Bassani finally got through on the six-time world champion at⭕ Curvone. 

Seemingly without the pace𝐆 to challenge for victory, Razgatlioglu continued to lose time on laps two and three as Bautista also gained a few tenths over Rinaldi.

Behind the podium trio, Bassani was hotting up again as he began to challenge Danilo Petr💞ucci for P4. 

Bautista’s lead then broke the one second barrier on lap four as he gaine♉d close to four tenths oꦍn Rinaldi.

While Bautista’s🍷 lead over Rinaldi stablised at around 1.3 seconds, the latter was pulling well clear of Razgatlioglu as he opened up a gap of nearly two seconds. ꦐ;

Further back, Rea was finding it very difficu🦩lt to maintain the pace of those ahead 🔜of him as the Kawasaki star lost a huge chunk of time on laps six and seven. 

That gav🐬e Dominique Aegerter the chance to try and overtake Rea for P6, however, the Northern Irishman 𓂃was proving tough to pass.

Aegerter remained close to Rea for several lap🌞s although the Superbike rookie was struggling to find a clear-cut opportunity. 

Ahead of those two, the gaps were faꦫirly stable as Bautista was still lapping quicker than anyone, while Rinaldi and Razgatlioglu were matching one-another’s times. 

With just six laps to go Petrucci made💯 a big mist♋ake at turn eight as he crashed out of fourth position.

Misano World Superbike Records

Lap Record - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha 1:33.722s (2022)

2022 Race Winners

Race 1 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati 

Superpole Race - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha

Race 2 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati

Alvaro Bautista started the race from pole despite a crash towards the end of the Superpole session. There were also late falls for Scott Redding ℱand Gabriele Ruiu. The last of those caused a red flag as Ruiu's BMW leaked fluid onto the circu𒁃it.

Weekend schedule (UK Time)

Friday 

09:30-10:15 - Free Practice 1

14:00-14:45 - Free Practice 2

Saturday 

08:00-08:30 - Free Practice 3

10:10-10:25 - Superpole 

13:00 - Race 1

Sunday 

08:00-08:15 - Warm-up

10:00 - Superpole Race

13:00 - Race 2