Jules Cluzel (GMT94 Yamaha) with 3 vice world championships, 3 third places and a fourth place is still without a title and unfortunately his dream will hardly be fulfilled this season if a miracle doesn’t happen.

Aegerter wins again – Odendaal loses P2 in the last lap to Bernardi

It was the Dane Jespersen who led as a surprising leader at the beginning, while pole sitter Dominique Aegerter was only in 4th position after the start. A little later, Steven Odendaal was ahead of Manuel Gonzalez, the Kallio Yamaha rider and the World Championship leader from Switzerland. Fifteen laps before the end, it was Raffaele de Rosa once more, who said goodbye to the battle for the top spots with a mistake. At this point Gonzalez was the leader ahead of Odendaal, Aegerter, JEspersen, Bernardi, Cluzel and Caricasulo. The 2019 world champion Randy Krummenacher was only on P9 behind his Swiss compatriot Marcel Brenner, followed by the two Kawasaki Puccetti team-mates Philipp Öttl and Can Öncü. Two laps later, Aegerter had already reached P2 ahead of Gonzalez and Odendaal had taken command again.

Manuel Gonzalez (Yamaha ParkinGo Team) – after his double podium in the Czech Republic, he didn’t experience a good Saturday on the Spanish track in the middle of the world-famous Rioja area.

The second half of the exciting WSSP race
For Manuel Gonzalez, the dream of the next podium after Most was over with nine laps to go. The Spaniard ended his hopes with a crash, which of course meant a special drama for him in his home country. With five laps to go, Aegerter had already fought his way past Odendaal and clearly separated from the South African. They were followed by Bernardi, Cluzel, Caricasulo, Krummenacher and on P7 Öttl. A little later, Can Öncü grabbed the surprise man from Denmark, with which Simon Jespersen fell back to P9. Shortly before the end, Marcel Brenner fell and Odendaal was still under pressure from Bernardi. Aegerter won safely in the end, and the World Cup runner-up was almost caught by the Italian in the last lap, but survived on P2. Behind Cluzel, Caricasulo, Krummi and Öttl, Can Öncü made it to eighth place despite starting position 24. Directly ahead of Simon Jespersen and Niki Tuuli in tenth, the young Turk impressively confirmed his upward trend.

Dominique Aegerter (Ten Kate Yamaha) in the winner’s interview – the Swiss must try to win as many points as possible because he will have to drive MotoE on September 19th instead of being able to compete in Barcelona.

Saturday afternoon’s race in numbers

Circuito de Navarra

The route map of Navarre, where the first WorldSBK race in history will start on August 22nd, 2021. With 9 right and 6 left turns, the Circuito de Navarra, like most of the other routes, is clockwise on the calendar. The racetrack was completed in June 2010 and is 3.933 km long and the start-finish straight is 800 m.

Top 20 in the WorldSSP 600 World Championships

  1. DOMINIQUE AEGERTER 232 YAMAHA
  2. STEVEN ODENDAAL 190 YAMAHA
  3. PHILIPP OETTL 146 KAWASAKI
  4. LUCA BERNARDI 134 YAMAHA
  5. MANUEL GONZALEZ 120 YAMAHA
  6. JULES CLUZEL 113 YAMAHA
  7. RANDY KRUMMENACHER 77 YAMAHA
  8. FEDERICO CARICASULO 71 YAMAHA
  9. CAN ALEXANDER ONCU 66 KAWASAKI
  10. RAFFAELE DE ROSA 56 KAWASAKI
  11. NIKI TUULI 49 MV AGUSTA
  12. HANNES SOOMER 47 YAMAHA
  13. MARC ALCOBA 40 YAMAHA
  14. CHRISTOFFER BE RGMAN 35 YAMAHA
  15. KEVIN MANFREDI 22 YAMAHA
  16. VERTTI TAKALA 21 YAMAHA
  17. GALANG HENDRA PRATAMA 21 YAMAHA
  18. PETER SEBESTYEN 15 YAMAHA
  19. VALENTIN DEBISE 9 YAMAHA
  20. SHERIDAN MORAIS 9 YAMAHA

WorldSBK Navarra schedule

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