Jonathan Rea claims WorldS༺BK 💯win #14 at Assen after getting the better of Michael Rinaldi in the early stages.

After gaining the lead on lap on🐼e, Rinaldi did his best to hold race one winner♏ Rea at bay, however, the six-time world champion was through on lap three and immediately broke clear.

Rinaldi held off intense pressure from team🌼-mate Scott Redding and Toprak Razgatlioglu before creating a gap to Redding himself. Razgatlioglu came through on Rꦗedding with four laps to go before doing the same on Rinaldi during the final lap. 

The battle for the podium wasn’t done there though, as Andrea Locatelli produced one of the ride’s of the year to claim third from Rinaldi - his first WorldSBK podium. The Pata Yamaha man got a good run out of turn 13, before ma༺king a move down the in🧔side at Ramshoek. 

Update: Rinaldi has been elevated to second place after Razgatlioglu and Locatelli were both demoted one spot for exceeding track limits - Razgatlioglu P3 and Locatelli P4 officially.

FIM WorldSBK STEWARDS: and Locatelli to dro🐻p one position due to exceeding the track limits on the final lap.

— WorldSBK (@WorldSBK)

A double crash on the opening lap saw home favorite Michael Van Der Mark go down at tur💛n 12, while Alvaroܫ Bautista suffered his second race crash of the weekend just three corners later. . 

Race One

Jonathan Rea regains the World Superbik﷽e championship lead thanks to victory in race one at Assen.  

Toprak Razgatlioglu made the perfect launch as he took the lead into turn one from Rea, however, the Pata Yamaha rider gave the lead straight back to Rea at turn three as 🧔he ran slightly wide. 

On lap four, Razgatlioglu made his second overtake for the lead (turn one once again), as a top three including Scott Redding separated themselves at the front. However, Rea used his pace advantage in sector two☂ to regain the lead on lap six. 

After getting past Razgatlioglu on lap seven, Redding made a mistake while following Rea at turn five which cost himself and Razgatlioglu over a second. It was a margin that proved too much to close down as Rea started to pull away. 𒊎;

With two laps remain🎶ing, Jonas Folger suffered a big crash at turns 6-7 which brought out an ♎immediate red flag. 

Alvaro Bautista’ troubles continued as he crashed on lap two at turn seven. On lap🐭 three there was even more drama as Michael Rinaldi and Alex Lowes crashed from the top five. 

Lucas Mahias and Kohta Nozane crasౠhed out at the final couple of corners (la🐼p 13) - incidents were unrelated. 

Tom Sykes and Garrett Gerloff produced stunning riders from the rear of the ൩grid - Sykes claiming seventh and Gerloff sixth. 

Victory for Reꦕa means he’s the first rider ever to w💮in 13 times at one circuit.