168澳洲5最新开奖结果:WorldSBK Portimao – Race Results (2)

Jonathan Rea completed a dominant𝕴 brace of victories in Round 3 of the 2020 WorldSBK Championship at Portimao to assume the championship lead for the fꦆirst time this season.

Having ridden clear of his rivals in both Race 1 and the Superpole Race, Rea didn’t put a foot wrong in the final race of the weekend in Portugal, snatching the lead at ꦐturn one and multiplying his advantage to the chequered flag.

His fifth Wo♉rldSBK win of the season in nine races and the perfect response to a relatively lacklustre round in Jerez a weekend earlier, Rea has nudged ahead of er💙stwhile championship leader Scott Redding in the overall standings.

To his credit, Redding – seven and fifth in the first two races - minimised the damage with a more convincing per🌳formance in race two, pushing his way up to second posiꦰtion early on and just holding onto the position to the end.

Indeed, Redding attempted to stick with Rea initially but would eventually slip back into the clutches of Michael van der Mark. The Dutchman briefly moved ahead with seven laps to go when Redding made an error into𓂃 Turn 5, only for the Yamaha man to commit his own error a few corners later to reverse the positions again.

From heꦆre Redding held firm to the chequered flag, keeping the margin to Rea overall pegged to a meagre four points.

Chaz Davies enjoyed a fruitful end to his weekend with a solid push to fourth position, th𒈔e Welshman assisted by Toprak Razgatlioglu, Alex Lowes and Leon Haslam taking separate tumbles at the tricky Turn 5 left-hande⛎r. Though Razgatlioglu and Haslam got going again, Lowes was forced to retire.

As 🐈such, Alvaro Bautista picked up the baton for Honda with his best result of the season for Hond💙a in fifth, ahead of Michael Ruben Rinaldi and Tom Sykes, who gave BMW a reason to smile after Eugene Laverty was another to fall victim to a fall at Turn 5 on lap one.

The recovering Razgatlioglu brought the Yamaha back to eighth position, with Federico Caricasulo secu෴ring his best finish of the season in ninth, h🌃elped in part by his GRT Yamaha team-mate and Xavi Fores coming together at Turn 2.

Leandro Mer🍬cado secured Motocorsa Racing’s first top ten finish in WorldSBK in tenth, ahead of the recovering Gerloff, Laverty and Haslam, with Marco Melandri and first-time point scorer Sylvain Barrier rounding out t🐻he top 15.

Elsewhere, Loris Baz - a podium winner in the Superpole Rꦬace - was another to retire after crashing at the final corner on the opening🥀 lap.