Jerez WorldSBK Race One 2025

Bulega Takes It To The Final Day

Whatever happens on the final day of the 2025 WorldSBK championship, the title fight itself will most definitely go to that final day at Jerez, after Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) had a convincing start-to-finish ride to take the Race One win.

Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was involved in some front-running fights, with a certain Andrea Iannone (Team Pata Go Eleven Ducati).

It took some time for the lead BMW rider to shake loose the yellow Ducati, and by then Nicolo was stretching out his leading advantage. He would win from Toprak by 3.7 seconds.

In an eventual third place, Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) had to work hard to pass other riders to get into a podium-capable position. He had to have two goes at making his passes stick on Iannone, but eventually got the job done. He was almost ten seconds from his team-mate in the end, but took another important podium for his chances of finishing an overall top three in the championship.

Iannone was fourth, but that position could have well been taken by Xavi Vierge (Honda HRC), had he not lost some time in one corner after passing Iannone with a handful of laps to go.

Alex Lowes (Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) was eying up a podium place at one time but when Bautista came past on the straight – on both him and Vierge in the one pass – Lowes lost two places he would not get back.

Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) had an eventually lonely ride to seventh.

Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) kept enough late pace to prevent the upwardly mobile Tarran Mackenzie (MGM BONOVO Racing Ducati) from taking eighth place off of him right at the end.

Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) got the better of Axel Bassani (Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) to take tenth place.

Jonathan Rea (Pata Maxus Yamaha) fell at T5, without injury, while occupying a strong early position.

A gap of 34 points separate Razgatlioglu and Bulega at the top of the table, with the ten-lap Sprint Race and then a final long Race Two to come on Sunday.

Unless something really bizarre happens, the title fight should really come to an end on Sunday morning.

2025 Jerez WorldSBK Race 1