Misano WSBK: Rea doubles up to lead third straight Kawasaki 1-2

Similarly to yesterday, Rea had a better getaway and was ahead of Sykes at Turn 1, the latter dropping behind Alex Lowes as well.

However, he fought back and retook the lead a corner later, sneaking past on the outside of both Rea and Lowes.

In the lower parts of the top 10, Markus Reiterberger touched the back of Chaz Davies and flew several metres in a highside crash, from which he walked away limping.

A lap later Chaz Davies lost control of his bike and, running right behind the Welshman, Michael van der Mark failed to avoid him and crashed too.

The Kawasaki duo soon pulled away from the rest of the field, with Lowes narrowly avoiding a crash after a wobble and falling behind the Ducatis of Davide Giugliano and Xavi Fores.

Having closely followed Sykes throughout the race, Rea made his move five laps before the end, forcing his way through on the outside of Turn 1.

Unable to fight back, Sykes quickly fell more than a second behind Rea, the latter celebrating his third double win of the season.

Giugliano took a podium on home soil, followed by Fores and Lorenzo Savadori, who took advantage of a late-race problem for Lowes.

The Briton ended up eighth, also allowing Nicky Hayden and Jordi Torres through.

His Yamaha teammate Niccolo Canepa finished right behind in ninth with Van der Mark recovering from last to 10th.

Race 2 results

Cla	#	Driver	Lap	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	22	Alex Lowes	2	1'35.165			159.865
2	1	Jonathan Rea	2	1'35.321	0.156	0.156	159.603
3	34	Davide Giugliano	2	1'35.389	0.224	0.068	159.490
4	66	Tom Sykes	3	1'35.495	0.330	0.106	159.313
5	12	Xavi Forés	4	1'35.807	0.642	0.312	158.794
6	81	Jordi Torres	3	1'35.913	0.748	0.106	158.618
7	60	Michael van der Mark	7	1'35.934	0.769	0.021	158.584
8	69	Nicky Hayden	19	1'35.982	0.817	0.048	158.504
9	2	Leon Camier	9	1'36.075	0.910	0.093	158.351
10	59	Niccolo Canepa	16	1'36.084	0.919	0.009	158.336
11	32	Lorenzo Savadori	19	1'36.226	1.061	0.142	158.102
12	15	Alex de Angelis	8	1'36.352	1.187	0.126	157.896
13	40	Roman Ramos	15	1'36.383	1.218	0.031	157.845
14	13	Anthony West	9	1'36.405	1.240	0.022	157.809
15	25	Josh Brookes	6	1'36.792	1.627	0.387	157.178
16	17	Karel Abraham	19	1'37.494	2.329	0.702	156.046
17	9	Dominic Schmitter	10	1'38.070	2.905	0.576	155.130
18	56	Peter Sebestyen	3	1'38.580	3.415	0.510	154.327
19	61	Fabio Menghi	16	1'38.606	3.441	0.026	154.286
20	11	Saeed Al Sulaiti	3	1'38.611	3.446	0.005	154.278
21	119	Pawel Szkopek	7	1'38.846	3.681	0.235	153.912
22	4	Gianluca Vizziello	6	1'38.949	3.784	0.103	153.751