SBK - Round 7 - Day 1

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Rea wins flag-to-flag opening race at Portimao

Superbike Portimao 2015 After twenty action-packed laps, that saw the first flag-to-flag race of 2015, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) has taken his ninth victory of the season in the opening race of the day at Portimao, coming home 9.384s ahead of team mate Tom Sykes and with an even bigger margin on Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Team), who completed the podium.

More than two thirds of the encounter saw the Kawasaki pair play a game of cat and mouse until, with 6 laps to go, the few drops - that were already falling down - turned into heavy rain. All but Sykes came in to change to wet tyres with Sykes following suit the following lap. The duo fought it out until Sykes made a mistake caused by a small and temporary technical problem, allowing Rea to notch up his 24th career win.

Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) who completed the podium after a titanic fight with Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) in the early stages.

Davide Giugliano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) was fourth ahead of Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike) and Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing Ducati).

Ayrton Badovini brought the BMW Motorrad Italia entry home in 7th ahead of Leandro Mercado, who experienced his first ever flag-to- flag race on the Barni Racing Ducati.

Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) recovered to 9th after an off track excursion as Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) rounded out the top-10 after running wide in the early stages of the race.

Jordi Torres was the first of the factory Aprilia riders in 11th, the WorldSBK rookie just beating team mate Leon Haslam who fell and re-joined on his first lap after changing to wet tyres. Randy de Puniet (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki), David Salom (Team Pedercini) and Nico Terol (Althea Racing Ducati) completed the point scorers.

Portimao, 7th June 2015, Superbike - Results race 1

01 - N.65 - J. REA - GBR - Kawasaki Racing Team - Kawasaki ZX-10R
02 - N.66 - T. SYKES - GBR - Kawasaki Racing Team - Kawasaki ZX-10R
03 - N.07 - C. DAVIES - GBR - Aruba.it Racing-Ducati SBK Team - Ducati Panigale R
04 - N.34 - D. GIUGLIANO - ITA - Aruba.it Racing-Ducati SBK Team - Ducati Panigale R
05 - N.01 - S. GUINTOLI - FRA - PATA Honda World Superbike Team - Honda CBR1000RR SP
06 - N.15 - M. BAIOCCO - ITA - Althea Racing - Ducati Panigale R
07 - N.86 - A. BADOVINI - ITA - BMW Motorrad Italia SBK Team - BMW S1000 RR
08 - N.36 - L. MERCADO - ARG - BARNI Racing Team - Ducati Panigale R
09 - N.60 - M. VD MARK - NED - PATA Honda World Superbike Team - Honda CBR1000RR SP
10 - N.22 - A. LOWES - GBR - VOLTCOM Crescent Suzuki - Suzuki GSX-R1000

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