Race report

World Superbike Algarve

Portimao WSBK: Bautista denies Razgatlioglu treble win

Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista scored victory in the final World Superbike race of the weekend at Portimao on Sunday, denying Toprak Razgatlioglu a treble win.

Jamie Klein

Edited: Oct 9, 2022, 2:28 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Alvaro Bautista, Aruba.it Racing Ducati

In what proved to be the only race at the Portuguese track to run its full 20-lap distance, Bautista extended his lead in the standings over Yamaha man Razgatlioglu to 56 points with only three rounds to go.

Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea could once again only manage third place and has now slipped 82 points behind Bautista.

It was Rea who led the opening phase of the race as he managed to grab the lead off poleman Razgatlioglu at the Turn 5 left-hander on the opening lap, with Bautista settling into third place behind his two nearest title rivals.

But Razgatlioglu stuck close to the rear wheel of Rea and was able to retake the lead into the first corner at the start of lap 7, holding off the Ulsterman the following lap as he tried to fight back at the same corner.

Next time by, Rea reasserted his authority as Bautista came close to making a double pass for the lead, slotting into second place behind the Ducati, before the Spaniard hit the front for the first time at the start of lap 10.

While Rea started to fade from the lead fight at this point, Razgatlioglu stuck with Bautista for several more laps, and after passing Rea for second he managed to briefly grab the lead back with a pass at the unusual location of Turn 13.

But just a few corners later Bautista used the superior straight-line speed of his works Ducati V4 R to retake the lead along the start/finish straight, and then eased away to 12th win of the season by a margin of 2.2 seconds.

Behind Rea, Michael Ruben Rinaldi was fourth aboard the second Ducati, holding off Alex Lowes aboard the Kawasaki by half a second.

Andrea Locatelli was a lonely sixth on his Yamaha ahead of top BMW rider Scott Redding and Honda man Xavi Vierge in eighth place, as Vierge's Honda teammate Lecuona crashed out at Turn 14 in the early stages.

Garrett Gerloff (GRT Yamaha) was best independent rider in ninth place following a rare crash for Motocorsa Ducati's Axel Bassani, while Loris Baz completed the top 10 aboard the Bonovo BMW.

Luca Bernardi was 13th on the Barni Ducati in his final race outing before being replaced by Xavi Fores for the final three races of the season.

MotoAmerica champion and Portimao wildcard Jake Gagne banked a single point for 15th place aboard his Attack Performance Yamaha.

Portimao WSBK - Race 3 results:

Cla # Rider Bike Gap 1 19 Spain Alvaro Bautista Ducati 2 1 Turkey Toprak Razgatlioglu Yamaha 2.256 3 65 United Kingdom Jonathan Rea Kawasaki 4.758 4 21 Italy Michael Ruben Rinaldi Ducati 7.833 5 22 Alex Lowes Kawasaki 8.406 6 55 Italy Andrea Locatelli Yamaha 15.191 7 45 Scott Redding BMW 19.661 8 97 Spain Xavi Vierge Honda 20.581 9 31 United States Garrett Gerloff Yamaha 20.889 10 76 France Loris Baz BMW 23.756 11 5 Germany Philipp Oettli Ducati 24.047 12 60 Netherlands Michael van der Mark BMW 25.749 13 29 San Marino Luca Bernardi Ducati 29.930 14 2 Italy Roberto Tamburini Yamaha 31.337 15 33 Jake Gagne Yamaha 36.203 16 50 Ireland Eugene Laverty BMW 38.719 17 17 Germany Marvin Fritz Yamaha 41.026 18 23 France Christophe Ponsson Yamaha 48.489 19 35 Malaysia Hafizh Syahrin Honda 48.591 20 36 Argentina Leandro Mercado Honda 48.727 21 3 Japan Kohta Nozane Yamaha 49.505 22 7 Spain Iker Lecuona Honda 1'06.148 23 52 Czech Republic Oliver Konig Kawasaki 1'13.116 47 Italy Axel Bassani Ducati 91 United Kingdom Leon Haslam Kawasaki 44 France Lucas Mahias Kawasaki View full results

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Portimao WSBK: Razgatlioglu hangs on to win Superpole race

Next article Bautista needed full race distance to beat Razgatlioglu

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

The ten closest finishes from the 2026 NASCAR season

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup 3 h

The ten closest finishes from the 2026 NASCAR season

‘Lewis suspected a conspiracy’ – Nico Rosberg explains how Lewis Hamilton F1 rivalry went awry at Mercedes

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1 4 h

‘Lewis suspected a conspiracy’ – Nico Rosberg explains how Lewis Hamilton F1 rivalry went awry at Mercedes

BMW "proud of what we achieved" after securing runner-up in 2026 WEC

WEC

WEC WEC

Monza

5 h

BMW "proud of what we achieved" after securing runner-up in 2026 WEC

The numbers that reveal how sprint races have turned the MotoGP title fight upside down

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Qatar GP

7 h

The numbers that reveal how sprint races have turned the MotoGP title fight upside down

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts