It was a dramatic Sunday at Jerez as Toprak Razgatlioglu won his third World Superbike title ahead of Nicolo Bulega after a tense final race.<\/p>\n
BMW rider Razgatlioglu, who won the championship in 2021 and 2024, came into the weekend with a sizeable 39-point lead over Ducati’s Bulega. <\/p>\n
That margin dropped as Bulega won the opening race on Saturday ahead of Razgatlioglu, but there was drama to come in Sunday’s Superpole sprint race. <\/p>\n
Moments after Rea and Gardner had come together on the opening lap, Bulega went for a gap up the inside of leader Razgatlioglu, but the riders made contact and the Turkish rider slid into the gravel. <\/p>\n
Bulega was handed a long-lap penalty for the incident but had enough pace in hand to win the sprint race and bring Razgatlioglu’s lead down to 22 points ahead of the final race.<\/p>\n
The Italian rider controlled the race to complete a weekend hat-trick of wins, but all eyes were on Razgatlioglu to see if he could finish about the 13th place required after his earlier crash. <\/p>\n
In the end, Razgatlioglu charged from 10th to third place to win his third championship in his final World Superbike race before he moves to MotoGP in 2026 with Yamaha. <\/p>\n
“We did an incredible season. Thank you very much everyone, my team, everyone worked so hard,” Razgatlioglu told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
“I love this paddock, I know all the teams, everyone is respectful. I’ll really miss this paddock. But maybe in the future I will come back here again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a dramatic Sunday at Jerez as Toprak Razgatlioglu won his third World Superbike title ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-225303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}