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The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship is back in action as Donington Park awaits the field, with plenty of milestones on the horizon. Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) is aiming for back-to-back hat-tricks at the historic venue as Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) looks to maintain his slender points lead. Check out some of the big stats and milestones to look out for at the Prosecco DOC UK Round below.

117-119 – Alvaro Bautista has 117 podiums, with 2 more he will reach a significant number, as 119 is the number of times Rea climbed on the top step of the podium.

67 – Donington Park matches Misano for WorldSBK races run: both started the season at 67 and will end up at 70. That is the third all-time spot behind Phillip Island (73) and Assen (71).

62 – Ducati have built up 62 podium finishes at Donington. Kawasaki are second-best with 56.

54 – In 67 races run at Donington Park, no fewer than 54 different riders have stepped onto the podium.

50 – Standing at 66 wins, with a hat-trick of wins, Toprak Razgatlioglu will reach 69, exactly 50 fewer than record-holder Jonathan Rea (119). Rea posted his 69^th win at San Juan, Race 1, in 2018 ahead of Marco Melandri and Toprak Razgatlioglu.

24 – British riders have won 24 races here: in 2018 Michael van der Mark stopped a record sequence of 11 wins by British riders, the longest for a country at this venue.

23 – The 23^rd of February is the only race day of this season without Toprak Razgatlioglu scoring points. Since then, when the Championship headed to Europe, he scored 263 points to Bulega’s 230.

19 – Jonathan Rea in 2023 took from Tom Sykes the record of podium finishes at Donington, upping his tally to 18 (Sykes 17), which became 19 last year.

15-16 – Ducati have recorded 15 pole positions at Donington Park: all their rivals are on a combined 16.

11 – 2025 marks the 11^th anniversary of Ducati’s last pole at Donington (2014, Davide Giugliano). Despite this drought, they won’t be reached soon as their pole tally here is 15, and the next competitor is Kawasaki at 10.

10 – The record string of wins by a manufacturer at Donington was set by Kawasaki: from 2013 to 2017 they won all 10 races run here.

10 – The last 10 races run here have been won either by Toprak Razgatlioglu (8) or Alvaro Bautista (2). The Titanic Trio of the aforementioned two plus Jonathan Rea has won all the races here since 2019 (15).

10 – One victory at Donington this weekend would be Razgatlioglu’s 10^th. He’d be the first rider to record 10 wins at Donington, and the second after Jonathan Rea to record at least 10 wins at two different venues; Razgatlioglu has 10 wins at Most, Rea has 17 at Assen and 13 at Portimao. He’d also surpass Tom Sykes’ nine wins at Donington with victory.

9 – 27 different winners at Donington: the most successful are Tom Sykes and Toprak Razgatlioglu at 9, followed by Carl Fogarty and Jonathan Rea at 6.

9 - 9 points between Championship leader and second place after 18 races. It’s the third time we have a single-digit gap in this century after: 2004: Toseland, who led Vermeulen by three points with 4 races to go and 2021, when Rea led Razgatlioglu by three points with 20 races to go.

7 – Tom Sykes is the record holder for Donington poles: 7. His next competitor is Carl Fogarty, with 4.

5x1- Tom Sykes was the sole polesitter here in the five weekends run from 2015 to 2019. This is the second-best string in history on any given track after the record one of 7 straight poles set by himself at Misano from 2011 to 2018.

1 – Donington Park was the stage of the first career win of four-time World Champion Carl Fogarty, back in 1992, Race 2.

1 – The first win for the Netherlands came at Donington Park, in 2018, thanks to Michael Van der Mark.

1 & 1-2 - BMW recorded their first WorldSBK win at Donington Park in 2012, Race 1, that was also a 1-2 with Marco Melandri winning and Leon Haslam as runner-up.

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