Pole position and the win for the Spanish Ducati rider in Barcelona gambling on the SCX B0800 rear and SC1 front; yet another win for Bulega in WorldSSP with Jeffrey Buis back to his winning ways in WorldSSP300
On the first day of races in the fourth round of the FIM World Superbike Championship on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.It Racing – Ducati) remains the man to beat. The Ducati riding Spaniard took pole position with a new track lap record and then triumphed in Race 1 ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha) and Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki). As for the tyres, the rear SCX development solution in B0800 compound, as had already happened in Assen, proved to be more popular than its standard counterpart, whereas the most used tyre at the front was the SC2.
In WorldSSP, it was yet another win - his fifth this year and third consecutive - for Nicolò Bulega (Aruba Racing WorldSSP Team), also on Ducati, ahead of German MV Agusta rider Marcel Schroetter and Turkish MV Agusta rider Bahattin Sofuoglu.
In WorldSSP300, the 2020 World Champion, Jeffrey Buis (MTM Kawasaki), was back to his winning ways, taking his first race since returning to the 300 championship. He finished ahead of Samuel Di Sora (ProDina Kawasaki Racing), second, and Mirko Gennai (Team BrCorse), on the third step of the podium after starting from the nineteenth spot on the grid.
Another splendid performance for the SCX development solution
“As already occurred last round in Asses, in the first race of the Barcelona weekend, most of the Superbike riders put the SCX B0800 development tyre on at the rear, preferring it over the standard tyre, in this case with higher asphalt temperatures than in Holland. This is useful information for us which helps us reach another milestone in the overall assessment that we will need to conduct of this tyre at the end of the season to see whether it is actually an improvement from every point of view over the current reference SCX and, therefore, if it can become the new standard SCX in 2024. As for the front tyres, we expected that the SC0 would not be used much, on one hand because the riders don’t know it well enough to use it in the race, and on the other hand, because this is a rather demanding track for the front tyres in terms of wear. In Supersport, on the other hand, the 125/70 front, although not the most used, is beginning to gain more and more popularity among the riders. Congratulations to the winners today and we expect to see some good races tomorrow.”
More details on the tyres used in the race are available on the technical sheets attached to this release.
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