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STATS GUIDE: Bautista set for RECORD-BREAKING 18 wins in a season, Rea poised for 400 starts at Most

Tuesday, 25 July 2023 10:54 GMT

Our third visit to the Autodrom Most will once again see it as a major statistical event

As the 2023 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship gets set to enjoy hard-earnt holidays in August after a blistering first half of the year, one round is left before we pack our bags. The Acerbis Czech Round at the Autodrom Most is back for the third time in as many years, with each one giving a super stat attack. Whether it was 200 podiums for the most successful WorldSBK rider in 2021 or Ducati’s 1000th podium last year, big stats are the dish of the day once again.

1000-1050 – Last year, Ducati celebrated here their 1000th WorldSBK podium. One year later, they are about to hit 1050, as they count now 1049.

400 – Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) is set for his 400th race start on Sunday in the Superpole Race. He’ll be the first to reach this goal: his best competitor is Troy Corser at 377.

196 – Spain counts 195 podium placements at the moment: with just one more, they will equal Japan’s tally, at the 5th all-time spot. The record belongs to Great Britain: 864 podiums.

100 – After the celebrations for Ducati, last year it was Yamaha’s turn to record a milestone: their 100th win, taken in the Superpole Race.

50 – Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) is just one win shy of the milestone of 50: he’d be the fourth rider to reach this goal. At the moment, the all-time standings are: Rea 118, Fogarty 59, Bayliss 52, Bautista 49. So, with a hat-trick of wins, he would equal Bayliss at the 3rd all-time spot.

50 – This year, Bautista and Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK) have already shared 18 podiums out of 21; with one more, they’ll hit 50 podiums together in all-time.

50 – In 2021, Most became the 50th track in WorldSBK history.

32/21 – Kawasaki has yet to climb on the top step at Most: they have won at 32 tracks so far. The record belongs to Ducati, winners at 47 tracks in WorldSBK history. Jonathan Rea so far won at 21 different tracks, an all-time record, but Most is not one.

21 – Yamaha is on its best streak of races on the podium, 21, and with three at Most, they’ll enter the all-time top ten streaks, taking the 7th place. The record belongs to Ducati, with 67 straight podiums from Sugo 2002 to Lusail 2005.

18 – After his win in Race 1 at Imola, Bautista looked set to claim the new all-time record of season wins, 18, on Sunday, but suffered his first…single win weekend of 2023. After two match-balls, he’s again ready to beat the record at Most.

7-6 – Yamaha leads Ducati for podiums here: 7-6. Only one Yamaha podium didn’t come from Toprak Razgatlioglu: a third place by Andrea Locatelli in Race 1, 2021.

6 – Toprak Razgatlioglu is the only rider who climbed on the podium in all six races run here.

4-2 – Thanks to Razgatlioglu, Yamaha is the most successful manufacturer ay Most, with four wins to Ducati’s two (Redding, Bautista).

1 – Two editions, only one poleman: Jonathan Rea.

1 – One BMW podium by Scott Redding (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) at Most: Race 1, 2022.

0.040s – The closest finish in WorldSBK at Most was in 2021’s Race 1, with Razgatlioglu ahead of Redding by 0.040s.

SHORTHAND NOTEBOOK

2022 race winners:

  • Alvaro Bautista (Ducati, Race 1)
  • Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha, Tissot Superpole Race and Race 2)

Last two polesitters at Most:

  • 2022: Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki) 1’30.947
  • 2021: Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki) 1’31.684

Manufacturer podium places accumulated from all races at Most (and wins):

  • Yamaha: 7 (4)
  • Ducati: 6 (2)
  • Kawasaki: 4
  • BMW: 1

Key gaps from Most 2022:

  • Front row covered by: 0.559s
  • 1 second in Superpole covered… the top eight: 0.771s
  • Closest race gap between 1st and 2nd: 0.040s (Razgatlioglu 1st, Redding 2nd, Race 1)
  • Closest race podium of all-time: 1.384s (Razgatlioglu 1st, Redding 2nd, Rea 3rd, Tissot Superpole Race)

Manufacturer top speeds at Most, 2022:

  • Honda: Iker Lecuona – 302.1 km/h, FP2
  • Ducati: Philipp Oettl – 302.1 km/h, Superpole Race
  • BMW: Scott Redding – 298.0 km/h, Superpole Race
  • Kawasaki: Jonathan Rea – 297.2 km/h, Race 1
  • Yamaha: Andrea Locatelli – 297.2 km/h, Superpole Race

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