Race report

Jerez WSBK: Bautista wins, Rea goes from last to fourth

Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista led every lap of the World Superbike Superpole race at Jerez while his title rival Jonathan Rea recovered to fourth from last position on the grid.

Bautista inherited pole position for the short-distance race when Rea was relegated to the back of the grid after hitting Alex Lowes at the last corner in Saturday's Race 1.

He kept the lead off the line and led all 10 laps of the race, comfortably winning by 2.7 seconds.

GRT Yamaha's Marco Melandri spent most of the race in second, first leading Leon Haslam and Tom Sykes before Michael van der Mark and Lowes started to gain ground.

Lowes ended up crashing out at Turn 7, failing to score for the second race in a row, but his Yamaha teammate van der Mark passed both Sykes and Haslam before attacking Melandri.

Van der Mark finally took second with three laps remaining at Turn 6 to repeat his Race 1 result, with Melandri completing the podium.

Rea, after gaining eight positions on the opening lap to run 10th, quickly passed Chaz Davies, benefited from Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jordi Torres both going wide and overtook Sykes and Haslam to move up to fourth by the halfway point of the race.

However, from then on, he couldn't close in on the Yamahas of Melandri and van der Mark and settled for fourth.

BMW rider Sykes beat Haslam to fifth with two more Kawasakis, Razgatlioglu (Puccetti) and Torres (Pedercini) completing the top eight.

Sandro Cortese (GRT Yamaha) finished ninth followed by three Ducatis: Chaz Davies, Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Barni) and Tommy Bridewell (GoEleven).

Loris Baz (Ten Kate Yamaha) was unable to start the race.

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Gap
1	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	10
2	Michael van der Mark	Yamaha	10	2.743
3	Marco Melandri	Yamaha	10	2.954
4	Jonathan Rea	Kawasaki	10	4.749
5	Tom Sykes	BMW	10	7.443
6	Leon Haslam	Kawasaki	10	7.710
7	Toprak Razgatlioglu	Kawasaki	10	9.565
8	Jordi Torres	Kawasaki	10	11.937
9	Sandro Cortese	Yamaha	10	12.243
10	Chaz Davies	Ducati	10	12.958
11	Michael Ruben Rinaldi	Ducati	10	15.062
12	Tommy Bridewell	Ducati	10	16.760
13	Leandro Mercado	Kawasaki	10	19.067
14	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	10	19.496
15	Markus Reiterberger	BMW	10	19.791
16	Alessandro Del Bianco	Honda	10	27.469
17	Ryuichi Kiyonari	Honda	10	27.770
	Alex Lowes	Yamaha	3
	Loris Baz	Yamaha
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