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Estoril WSBK: Davies leads Ducati 1-2 in season finale

Chaz Davies capped off his stint as a factory Ducati rider with a fine victory in the final race of the 2020 World Superbike season at Estoril, leading a 1-2 for the Italian manufacturer.

Chaz Davies, ARUBA.IT Racing Ducati

Chaz Davies, ARUBA.IT Racing Ducati

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While polesitter Toprak Razgatlioglu got the best launch off the line, Davies managed to pass him into Turn 1 to take an early lead.

The two were quickly joined by the Kawasaki of Jonathan Rea, who had jumped Michael van der Mark at the start before capitalising on a crash for GRT Yamaha’s Garrett Gerloff to move up to third.

After bringing the gap to under a second, Rea slipped past Razgatlioglu at Turn 1 on lap 8, only for the Turkish rider to immediately repass him. The six-time championship made another attempt at passing Razgatlioglu on the same tour, but clattered into the back of the Yamaha and fell on the ground.

Rea managed to remount on his Kawasaki but could only rejoin the race in 16th, giving Davies a clear run to the finish, the British rider scoring his second victory of the season to end his seven-year stint with Ducati on a high.

While Rea missed out on a 100th career win in WSBK, the 14th place finish he eventually managed helped Kawasaki beat Ducati by a single point in the manufacturers’ championship.

Meanwhile, Scott Redding passed Razgatlioglu three laps from the flag to finish second, while van der Mark recovered from a sluggish start to take fourth.

Honda’s Alvaro Bautista made it three different manufacturers in the top five, while Go Eleven Ducati’s Michael Ruben Rinaldi was the highest rider on a satellite bike in sixth, having secured the independent riders’ title in the Superpole race earlier on Sunday.

Leon Haslam was classified seventh for Honda, while Xavi Fores equalled his best result of the year with eighth on the Puccetti Kawasaki.

Federico Caricasulo was ninth on the sole surviving GRT Yamaha bike, while BMW’s Tom Sykes rounded out the top 10 finishers ahead of wildcard Jonas Folger (MGM Yamaha) and teammate Eugene Laverty.

Race results:

Cla # Rider Bike Laps Gap
1 7 United Kingdom Chaz Davies
Ducati 21
2 45 United Kingdom Scott Redding
Ducati 21 1.951
3 54 Turkey Toprak Razgatlioglu
Yamaha 21 2.556
4 60 Netherlands Michael van der Mark
Yamaha 21 10.423
5 19 Spain Alvaro Bautista
Honda 21 15.473
6 21 Italy Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Ducati 21 20.277
7 91 United Kingdom Leon Haslam
Honda 21 21.074
8 12 Spain Xavi Fores
Kawasaki 21 21.291
9 64 Italy Federico Caricasulo
Yamaha 21 22.427
10 66 United Kingdom Tom Sykes
BMW 21 25.168
11 94 Germany Jonas Folger
Yamaha 21 26.945
12 50 Ireland Eugene Laverty
BMW 21 28.511
13 36 Argentina Leandro Mercado
Ducati 21 32.281
14 1 United Kingdom Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki 21 38.800
15 71 Italy Matteo Ferrari
Ducati 21 46.083
16 51 Brazil Eric Granado
Honda 21 47.000
17 13 Japan Takumi Takahashi
Honda 21 47.295
18 32 South Africa Sheridan Morais
Kawasaki 21 1'01.053
19 84 Belgium Loris Cresson
Kawasaki 21 1'31.338
22 United Kingdom Alex Lowes
Kawasaki 15
76 France Loris Baz
Yamaha 14
31 United States Garrett Gerloff
Yamaha 2

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