Full Argentina World Superbike sprint race results

Jonathan Rea has produced lap record pace to win the Superpole sprint race in Arge🦄ntina as the full World Sup🍸erbike championship grid returned to action.

After just 12 riders contested the opener in Argentina, with six riders sitting 𒅌out the race due to safety concern⛎s, cooler track temperatures ensured sa🀅fer conditions at Circuito San Juan Villicum to see every rider start the race.

Rea bolted clear from pole position, producing a new lap record in the process, to take victory by just over two seconds for Kawasaki from Race 1 winner Alvaro Bautista on the Aruba.it Racing Ducati, despite a hairy moment for the newly-crowned five𓃲-time world champion on the penultimate lap.

In a repeat of the podium trio𓄧 from the opening race, Toprak Razgatlioglu completed the rostrum in third place for Puccetti Kawasaki with factory Duc🔥ati’s Chaz Davies charging up to fourth place.

Alex Lowes led the Pata Yamaha charge in fifth in fr💧ont of team-mate Michael van der Mark and GRT Yamaha’s Sandro Cortese.

Leon Haslam struggled to replicate the pace of his team-mate with the Kawasaki rider down in eighth place but ahead of🐷 BMW’s Tom Sykes.

Local favourite Leandro Mercado sprinted through from last on the grid to 10^th pla﷽ce on the Orelac Racing Kawasaki with Pedercini Kawasaki’s Jordi Torres getting the better of Moriwaki Althea Honda’s Leon Camier in the closing stages.

With Eugene Laverty in 13^th place fo🌱r Team Goeleven Ducati he saw off the challenge from fello🐠w customer Ducati rider Michael Ruben Rinaldi on the Barni Ducati.

Marco Melandri claimed 15^th place for GRT Yamaha ahead of Alessandro Delbianco (Althea Honda), Markus Reiterbe꧟rger (BMW) and Ryuichi Kiyonari (Moriwaki Althea Honda) as Loris Baz was the only non-finisher after fallingꦇ on the opening lap at Turn 16 for Ten Kate Racing Yamaha.