Superbike, Ducati: Alvaro Bautista confirmed as world champion

Superbike, Ducati: Alvaro Bautista is confirmed as world champion

Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista has è been crowned Superbike world champion for the second consecutive year. The Spanish centaur dominated race-1 in Jerez de la Frontera and mathematically clinched the title: his closest rival, Toprak Razgatlioglu, canò no longer catch up.

Bautista, who has laid down the law all season long, winning 25 of the season&#39s 33 races, has clinched the iris with two rounds d'advance to the end of the season.

Two points would have been enough in Jerez for Bautista, who instead took the full haul ahead of Razgatlioglu (Yamaha), and Locatelli (Ducati). Fourth place for Jonathan Rea, followed by Danilo Petrucci.