Winner of the third race of the weekend, Sunday got off to the worst possible start for Ducati as Bautista and Rinaldi came to blows in the Superpole Race😼.

Bautista ran into the back of Rinaldi at turn five after Razgatliogl𓆉u managed to pos🤡ition his Yamaha on the inside of turn five.

• Magny-Cours World Superbike Race (2) resul♓ts:🃏 Bautista returns to form 
• Magny-Cours 𝓡World Superbike Superpole Race results: Bautista takes ไout Rinaldi

With Rinaldi having to p🤪ick up his Pa﷽nigale V4 R, Bautista, who was also fancying a move for the lead, hit the rear of his teammate which led to Rinaldi crashing out.

Summing up his weekend, Bautista said 🌃this after Race 2: "I’m so happy to end𒁃 the weekend like this, especially because I didn’t start so well being ill on Thursday. 

"I was recovering throu🌼gh the weekend and today I feel almost 100% with my energy. Technically it has also been a weekend of less to more and even though our pace from Friday was good, yesterday we had an issue with the engine. 

"Loo🐎king at the pace after the race, I think we could have fought for the win yesterday. In the Superpole Race it was exciting and everybody used the SC2 t🥀yre.

"I have to say that it worked really well and Pirelli did a really good job with the🦩 new SCQ tyre for the race. It has a lot of perform♉ance and you have the durability to do ten laps without problem. 

"We had🀅 a really good battle with Toprak and my teammate Michael. But in turn five we had anꦇ incident because we all arrived together, and with the slipstream I could not stop the bike. 

"The slipstream absorbed me and I tr🀅ied to avoid the impact. 

"Toprak went to the in♔side and Michael had to pick up the bike and I found him in the middle of the way. Sorry for Michael because he was really strong and could fight for the win."

Despite a red flag seeing him lose his advantage at the start of Race 2, Bautista quickly set about dominatin♎g the remaining 17 laps when it got back underway.

The winner by over five seconds from Razgatlioglu, Bautisꦕta was in a league of his own as he r🅰estored a near 60 point lead in the standings. 

"Race 2 with this condition ꦍwas difficult but was similar to yesterday and I knew the feeling with the bike," added the Aruba.it Ducati rider.&nbs💝p;

"I tried to do a good start but after five laps the race was stopped and it was difficult because in that moment I really felt good with the bike and was 🍨riding really well. 

"I tried to not go away from that feeling. It didn’t matter if the race stopped I just wanted t꧒o have the feeling again. 

"The second start I felt re🙈ally good with the bike and could push from the beginning. In the end I was alone and kept pushing because I enjoyed sliding the bike on the entry to the corner."