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Alvaro Bautista continued his dominating streak in the WorldSBK has he once again completed another clean sweep at Missano and increased his championship lead last weekend.

Race 1

Alvaro Bautista took victory for the 12th time in 13 World Superbike races this season after another dominant display in front of Ducati’s home fans in Race 1.

There was drama before the five lights went out as Bradley Ray suffered a problem on the grid. Yellow flags were waved as a result before a very small delay.

Keen to break up Bautista’s rhythm at the start, Toprak Razgatlioglu instead lost secons pot to Rinaldi before attempting a obld move around the outside of turn four.

After initially getting ahead, Rzzgatlioglu was then stood up on the entry to turn five by Rinaldi as the Italian swooped back through.

Come the end of the opening lap both factory Ducatis stretched clear of Razgatlioglu, while Axel Bassani was harassing Jonathan Rea for P5.

After several failed overtakes, Bassani finally got through on the six-time world champion at Curvone. That was the final positions at the end of Race 1.

Race 2

Alvaro Bautista then made it three World Superbike hat-tricks in a row after winning Race 2 at Misano.

Like the Superpole Race, Razgatlioglu made the best start of those on the front row as he led into turn one. Bautista was then pushed back to third as Rinaldi came through on the pole sitter at turn four.

However, the reigning world champion responded before the lap was over to regain P2. Come the end of sector two on lap two, and Bautista was back in the lead as he gapped Razgatlioglu by a huge margin in just a few corners.

Razgatlioglu was clearly struggling compared to the Ducatis around him, as Axel Bassani was the next to become interested in a move.

As the race settled into a pattern, Razgatlioglu re-found his pace as he began homing in on Rinaldi for second spot.

Lowes, who was right behind Bassani and Rea for the battle for P4, crashed out on lap seven. The British rider lost the front-end of his Kawasaki at turn four.

With Bautista leading by nearly five seconds, the closest battle was for second as Razgatlioglu continued pressuring Rinaldi.

Performing one of his trademarc moves, Razgatlioglu braked incredibly late into turn eight in order to pass Rinaldi with seven laps remaining.

Eager to get straight back through, Rinaldi made a mistake under braking for turn one as he clipped the rear of Razgatlioglu before crashing out.

Carrying way too much speed into the right-hander, Rinaldi was unable to pick up his Panigale V4 R in time to avoid the Yamaha rider.

Bautista came home for his 14th win from 15 races. Toprak finished second with Bassani third and Jonathan Rea in a disappointing weekend for the Kawasaki’s in forth place.

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