STATS ROUND-UP: Bautista equals Haga win tally, Razgatlioglu makes history in Barcelona
Writing modern day milestones and hitting obscure numbers: all that and more in this week’s post-round stats
With the 2023 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship now officially a third of the way through the season, patterns are now forming up and down the grid. However, the Prosecco DOC Catalunya Round was a monumental weekend of action and that is reflected in the stats, as historic names are matched by current greats, whilst a major milestone was just missed by the most successful WorldSBK rider of all-time on Sunday.
400 – Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK) took Yamaha’s 400th podium in Barcelona during Race 2. With three podiums on Sunday, they are now three ahead of Honda and third overall behind Ducati (1036) and Kawasaki (528).
249 – Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) took a 249th career podium in Race 1, whilst he crashed out of third on the final lap of the Superpole Race, missing a chance to take his 250th – he would have been the first rider to achieve it. He was fifth in Race 2. It was also the 860th podium for the UK.
150 – Razgatlioglu’s second place in Race 2 was his 150th points-scoring race.
110 – Rea’s third place on the grid saw him qualify for the front row for the 110th time.
80 – Alvaro Bautista gave Spain an 80th victory in World Superbike in Race 2.
100/45 – With Bahattin Sofuoglu winning ahead of teammate Marcel Schroetter in WorldSSP, it was Turkey’s 45th in the class, their 100th podium and MV Agusta’s first 1-2 in the class since Phillip Island 2015, when Jules Cluzel won ahead of Lorenzo Zanetti.
43 – 43 wins in WorldSBK for Alvaro Bautista, the same as Noriyuki Haga.
40 – Bautista and Razgatlioglu share a podium for the 40th time.
31 – An all-time record was equalled in Race 1, when Bautista, Razgatlioglu and Rea shared a podium for the 31st time, the same as Rea, Davies and Sykes.
20 – Bautista’s pole in Barcelona was the 20th for Spain, but just the third on home turf. The other two home poles courtesy of Bautista, one at Aragon in 2019 and the other in Barcelona last year. It was Bautista’s seventh pole, which means he is 20th in the all-time pole rankings.
17 – Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) took a 17th career podium, equalling with Ben Bostrom and Ben Spies in the 39th place in the all-time rankings.
11 – 11 wins from the opening 12 races for Bautista in 2023, the third time this has happened in WorldSBK history. The first time was Neil Hodgson in 2003, and the second was Bautista himself in his rookie 2019 year, when he won the first 11.
4 – Bautista became the fourth different polesitter in WorldSBK at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in as many years: Rea in 2020 (Kawasaki), Sykes in 2021 (BMW) and Lecuona in 2022 (Honda). That also means that Ducati become the fourth different manufacturer too.
4 – No pole position for Jonathan Rea in the opening four rounds of a season for the first time since 2016; he had to wait until Round 11 at Magny-Cours that year.
3 – Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK) became the third rider to achieve a Tissot Superpole Race podium from outside the top nine places on the grid, coming through from 10th. The other occasions were Jonathan Rea at Aragon in 2019, coming from 10th to finish in P2 and Toprak Razgatlioglu coming from 16th to win at Magny-Cours the same year.
2 – For the first time in WorldSSP300, an Italian 1-2: Mirko Gennai (Team BrCorse) won ahead of Matteo Vannucci (AG Motorsport Italia Yamaha).
0 – For the first time in his WorldSBK career, Scott Redding (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) failed to score points.
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