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UPDATE: On 25/10/2018, Lucas Mahias (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Team) was reinstated as the winner of the Nolan Portuguese Round following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after being initially disqualified.

The standings have been updated accordingly, with all riders who finished that race demoted one position. Sandro Cortese has been demoted from fifth to sixth position and thus loses one point, while Jules Cluzel’s points remain unchanged, meaning that the gap between the pair has been reduced to 5 points.

The list of scenarios below has been updated to reflect the new situation. The biggest change is that a win for Cluzel would now be enough to see him secure the crown, whatever current leader Cortese does at Losail.

For a second year in a row, the winner of the FIM Supersport World Championship will be decided at the final race. With Jules Cluzel (NRT) winning the last two races followed in second by championship leader Sandro Cortese (Kallio Racing), we’re left with just the Pirelli Qatar Round remaining and six points separating the top two.

Under the floodlights of Losail, it will be a game of winner-takes-all… unless Cortese can finish second. A runner-up finish in the twelfth race of the year would be enough for the German to seal the title by at least a single point, even if Cluzel manages to claim his sixth win of the season. But second place is far from a given for the Kallio Racing rider, who has finished outside the top two in over half the races this season.

One thing playing in Cluzel’s favour is that he holds the advantage in a tie-breaking scenario, with five race wins to Cortese’s two. However, the 30-year-old must be hoping that it won’t come down to that: a Cluzel win with Cortese in third place would seal a French title win – for the second year in a row – by three points.

Whose name will be written on the 2018 trophy? Here’s the different results that could tip the scales one way or another:

Cortese is WorldSSP champion if:

- He finishes 1^st, or ahead of Cluzel

- He finishes 2^nd, Cluzel finishes 3^rd or worse.

- He finishes 3^rd; Cluzel finishes 2^nd or worse.

- He finishes 4^th; Cluzel finishes 3^rd or worse.

- He finishes 5^th, 6^th or 7^th; Cluzel finishes 4^th or worse.

- He finishes 8^th or 9^th; Cluzel finishes 5^th or worse.

- He finishes 10^th; Cluzel finishes 6^th or worse.

- He finishes 11^th; Cluzel finishes 7^th or worse.

- He finishes 12^th; Cluzel finishes 8^th or worse.

- He finishes 13^h; Cluzel finishes 9^th or worse.

- He finishes 14^th; Cluzel finishes 10^th or worse.

- He finishes 15^th; Cluzel finishes 11^th or worse.

- He finishes 16^th or worse; Cluzel finishes 12^th or worse.

All other scenarios result in Cluzel becoming WorldSSP champion.

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