Northern Eire’s six-time world champion Jonathan Rea endured one other troublesome day on the second spherical of World Superbike races in Barcelona.
Turkey’s Toprak Razgatlioglu earned his first win for BMW in race one at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, edging Italy’s Nicolo Bulega on the final lap.
That was nonetheless sufficient to elevate Bulega one level above England’s Alex Lowes on the high of the championship standings.
Lowes completed sixth however twin brother Sam Lowes crashed out whereas main.
Rea’s irritating begin with Yamaha continued because the 37-year-old was compelled to retire on the finish of his first lap in Saturday’s 20-lap race.
It comes after he ending in a lowly seventeenth place in his first aggressive outing for the group after which needed to be stretchered off the circuit following a crash in race two in the opening round at Phillip Island, Australia in February.
Rea spoke of feeling “misplaced” amid dealing with issues together with his bike that weekend – and an early mechanical subject ended his hopes of attaining progress in race one in Spain.
England’s Alex Lowes had led the sequence by 9 factors from Bulega after profitable two of the three races on the opening weekend.
Bulega appeared on target to duplicate the race one win he achieved in Australia however Razgatlioglu was capable of make up a deficit of virtually 4 seconds at midway to overtake the Italian in a dramatic last lap.
It accomplished a double for Razgatlioglu on Saturday, after he additionally claimed his first pole place for BMW by setting a record-breaking tempo in Barcelona’s Superpole race.
The 27-year-old clocked a lap report one minute 39.489 seconds as a complete of 10 riders completed faster than the present lap report.
The race didn’t go to plan for Sam Lowes, regardless of a promising begin which noticed him lead the race. A crash on flip 10 ended his problem and gave Bulega the benefit – but it surely was Razgatlioglu’s day.