2018 British WorldSBK and WorldSSP Saturday Results—Everyone expected history in race one, but it was Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK) who scored his first win rather than (Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) becoming a stand-alone all-time race winner in WorldSBK.
2018 British WorldSBK and WorldSSP Saturday Results
van der Mark was the first Dutch rider to score a full race win in WorldSBK. This was the first Yamaha win since 2011.
Rea and eventual third-placed rider Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) took turns to lead. But once VDM hit the front, he proved to have a higher pace on a different rear tire.
Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK) finished fourth, six seconds down. Lorenzo Savadori (Milwaukee Aprilia) beat his team-mate Eugene Laverty for fifth.
Loris Baz (GULF ALTHEA BMW Racing Team) had a strong finishing in seventh but was 15 seconds down.
A terrible day for the Ducati riders saw their best-placed rider being Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) in eighth, who passed Leon Haslam (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) near the end as Haslam and Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) clashed and the Turkish rider fell.
A gutsy ride from the still-injured Leon Camier (Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team) saw him finish 10th. Wildcard rider Bradley Ray (Buildbase Suzuki) was 14th, ahead of PJ Jacobsen (TripleM Honda World Superbike Team). Jake Gagne (Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team) was 16th. Marco Melandri (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) fell and restarted to finish 22nd.
In the championship, Rea has 229 points, Davies 170, Sykes 153 and VDM 138.
2018 British WorldSBK and WorldSSP Saturday Results
2018 British WorldSSP Superpole Results: Cluzel nabs pole
Jules Cluzel (NRT Yamaha) continued the positivity of his recent race wins with a pole position at Donington Park in the WorldSSP class, ending up 0.195 seconds ahead of his fellow Frenchman Lucas Mahias (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Team).
The main competitors in WorldSSP were up top again, as former GP rider Sandro Cortese (Kallio Racing Yamaha) was third, completing the front row of the grid.
Randy Krummenacher (BARDAHL Evan Bros WorldSSP Yamaha) was the final man in a four-way Superpole whitewash from the R6 riders, but after a tough start to the season in some regards, Hikari Okubo (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) reasserted his official team credentials with a fifth place grid spot.
Raffaele De Rosa (MV Agusta Reparto Corse by Vamag) was the best F3 rider in sixth. Federico Caricasulo (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Team) was seventh.
Luke Stapleford’s late swap to Yamaha machinery in his Profile Racing team put him eighth in Superpole 2 at his home round in the UK. Ayrton Badovini (MV Agusta Reparto Corse by Vamag) completed the third row, and the top ten was wrapped up by the presence of the second Kawasaki Puccetti Racing rider, Sheridan Morais.
Anthony West (EAB antwest Racing Kawasaki) was 15th in Superpole.
2018 British WorldSSP Superpole Results
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