Alvaro Bautista needs just two points in order to retain his WorldSBK title while Toprak Razgatlioglu needs to win all three races just to stand a very small chance.
Andrea Locatelli has called Race 2 at Aragon ‘one of the best races of my life’ after holding off 2021 WorldSBK champion Toprak Razgatlioglu until a broken oil radiator with four laps to go.
Danilo Petrucci was set for three top five finishes at the Magny-Cours WorldSBK round before running into issues with his gearbox sensor at the start of the penultimate lap.