WorldSBK Race Two
Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) and Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) had their now customary mano-a-mano fight at Portimao for ten laps – until a red flag was thrown (after Jason O’Halloran (Pata Maxis Yamaha) had crashed at T1 and there were concerns over the condition of the track). Jason was deemed OK and made his own way back to the pitbox.
A quick race restart at 14.30, and over 11-laps only, ended up being run as the stand-alone Race Two, with full points awarded.
The riders lined up on the final grid of the weekend in the order of where they were ranked after their last complete timed sector had been completed in the red flagged ‘race.’
Bulega pushed hard to take the immediate lead, even if Razgatlioglu set an early fastest lap.
A mistake from the lead Ducati rider with five to go seemed to open the door for the BMW rider, but Bulega composed himself and kept his advantage, for a time.
Razgatlioglu would make a telling pas and when Bulega ran just a little wide in the first corner with one lap to go, Toprak held onto the lead, by a realtively large 0.195 seconds.
Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) was third, 3.5 seconds behind the winner, with
Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) winning the fight for fourth place with the improving Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team).
Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati) had to give his best to keep the new Bimota of Axel Bassani (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) behind him, with Petrucci finishing sixth and Bassani a season-best seventh.
Iker Lecuona (Honda HRC) had a redemptive eighth place, with Dominique Aegerter (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) ninth and Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati) tenth.
In the championship fight, after six races in all, Bulega leads with 111 points, Razgatlioglu has 82, Petrucci 60 and Bautista 59.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—WorldSBK Race Two
- Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team)
- Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.195s
- Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +3.512s
- Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) +6.617s
- Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) +7.478s
WorldSSP Race Two
In a re-run of Race One Can Öncü (Yamaha bLU cRU Evan Bros Racing) was on his way to a seemingly certain race win – until he fell at T1 at mid-race distance and no-scored.
With the race win suddenly up for grabs the already hot multi-rider fight for the podium places intensified all the more.
Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) started to find a gap to lead with a five laps to go and by the end enjoyed a winning margin of 2.348 seconds, relegating Stefano Manzi (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha) in a final second place, with a group running hard behind.
This was Bendsneyder’s first WorldSSP Race victory since he joined the paddock at the end of last year, for two rounds only.
In Race Two Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) came from outside the early leading group to third on his three-cylinder machine, ending up as the top rider in a four rider fight.
Fourth again, after Saturday’s similar result, was Lucas Mahias (GMT94-Yamaha) with his fellow Frenchman Valentin Debise (Renzi Corse Ducati) fifth and lone Kawasaki rider Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) sixth.
One-time potential podium rider Jaume Masia (Orelac Racing VerdNatura Ducati) ended up seventh, ahead of Marcel Schrötter (WRP Racing Ducati).
Leonardo Taccini (Ecosantagata Althea Racing Team Ducati) was eighth and the still-recovering Philipp Öttl (Feel Racing WorldSSP Team Ducati) tenth.
In the championship, Manzi has 85 points, with 72 for Booth-Amos and 70 for Bendsneyder.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—WorldSBK Race Two
- Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse)
- Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) +2.348s
- Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) +3.443s
- Lucas Mahias (GMT94 Yamaha) +3.684s
- Valentin Debise (Renzi Corse) +3.900s
WorldSBK Superpole Race
Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) won his second race in as many days at Portimao, once more just beating his only real rival Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) across the line. The margin of victory this time around was an even slimmer 0.055 seconds, having been 0.067 seconds in Race One.
Bulega had made a great start and took the early lead, with Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati) just behind and Razgatlioglu in third place, fighting with with Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Ducati).
By lap three Razgatlioglu was second, just in the slipstream of Bulega, with Petrucci being dropped off the final fight for the win.
Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) had a clean start but found it hard to make progress beyond fifth place early on. He would eventually pass Petrucci with two laps to go and settle the final podium rankings with his name included in them.
In fourth place came Petrucci, holding off Race One podium finisher Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha). Sam Lowes would take a finally lonely sixth.
Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) headed up a final group of five midfield riders, with the Dutchman seventh, Xavi Vierge (Honda HRC) eighth, his Honda team-mate Iker Lecuona ninth, Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) tenth and the leading bimota of Axel Bassani in 11th position. Garrett Gerloff (Kawasaki WorldSBK Team) was 16th.
One full distance 20-lap Race Two remains to be run at Portimao for the WorldSBK riders.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—WorldSBK Superpole Race
- Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team)
- Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.055s
- Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +4.407s
- Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) +5.327s
- Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) +6.206s
WorldSBK Race One
Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) and Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) had a crowd-pleasing fight almost all through the 20-lap opening race at Portimao, with the Turkish rider holding on to his slender lead on the final lap to win by just 0.067 seconds.
Razgatlioglu used a hard SC2 front tire and Bulega a softer front option, but they were well-matched on track, with several passes and re-passes being put in around WorldSBK’s very own asphalt roller coaster.
Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) secured an excellent third place finish on the official R1, having been second on lap one and fast enough for long enough to blunt even the challenge of fourth placed rider, Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati). Locatelli was 7.855 seconds from the win, but took his first podium of the season all the same.
Another unexpected top ride – even with some other star names out of the running – came from the official Fireblade of Xavi Vierge (Honda HRC), in a lone fifth place.
There was a five rider fight for the last few places inside the top ten, with Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) sixth, Andrea Iannone (Team Pata GoEleven Ducati) seventh, Dominique Aegerter (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) eighth, Axel Bassani (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) ninth and Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) finally tenth after starting the final lap in seventh place.
Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) and Scott Redding (MGM BONOVO Racing Ducati) clashed and fell on lap one. Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati) was another early DNF, with Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Ducati) out of the running at half race distance. His brother Alex Lowes (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) was also a faller as he tried to climb back into contention from his last place start on the grid.
In the championship, with two WorldSBK races still to go at Portimao on Sunday 30 March, Bulega has 82 points and Razgatlioglu 45.
WorldSSP Race One
Can Öncü (Yamaha bLU cRU Evan Bros Racing) earned a start-to-finish victory in the first 17-lap WorldSSP race at Portimao, wining from another Yamaha R9 rider, Stefano Manzi (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha) by a clear 0.836 seconds. This was his second career WorldSSP win, but his first on a Yamaha.
An all-Yamaha podium was on the card for some time until Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) entered the fray to take third place, displacing the slowing Lucas Mahias (GMT94-Yamaha).
Almost ten seconds behind the winner, previous championship leader Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) fought through the pack to take fifth place, with a four-rider warring pack right on his heels.
Marcel Schrötter (WRP Racing Ducati) was a sixth, Jaume Masia (Orelac Racing VerdNatura Ducati) seventh despite taking a ride-through penalty for irresponsible riding, Valentin Debise (Renzi Corse Ducati) was eighth and lone Kawasaki runner Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) placed ninth.
Federico Caricasulo (Motozoo ME air Racing MV Agusta) ended his first Portimao race in tenth place. Oli Bayliss (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) placed 17th. One more WorldSSP race remains at Portimao, on Sunday 30 March.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—WorldSSP Race One
- Can Oncu (Yamaha BLU CRU Evan Bros Team)
- Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) +0.836s
- Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) +1.767s
- Lucas Mahias (GMT94 Yamaha) +3.801s
- Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) +9.630s
WorldSBK Superpole
Having beaten the previous track best in FP3 in the early morning, Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) went on to improve on that mark in Superpole qualifying, with a 1’39.133. He set that time early on and would ultimately go even faster – with a 1’39.081 that earned his first Superpole win of 2025 – but not quite break into the magic 1’38 mark.
Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) was second fastest, 0.245 seconds behind the Turkish star, with Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati) taking the final front row grid spot for Race One.
The blanket BMW/Ducati leading results of the opening day at Portimao were flipped over to some degree when the SCX tires were used in anger Superpole, with Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) fourth, Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Ducati) fifth and Xavi Vierge (Honda HRC) a very promising sixth.
Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was second for some time but dropped to seventh fastest at the end.
Dominique Aegerter (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) was eighth, Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) ninth and Australian rider Remy Gardner (GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) tenth.
Garrett Gerloff (Kawasaki WorldSBK Team) was 16th and the normal lead bimota rider, Alex Lowes (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team), was classified 23rd and last. He had an early crash in Superpole and had his lone fast lap cancelled as it was set under a yellow flag.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—WorldSBK Superpole
- Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) 1’39.081s
- Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.245s
- Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) +0.402s
- Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) +0.528s
- Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) +0.581s
Friday WorldSBK
Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) put in the quickest time at one of his favorite tracks to head up the combined FP1 and FP2 sessions at Portimao. He was the only rider to get under the 1’40 mark, setting a 1’39.995 to displace one-time leader Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) to second quickest in the early overall weekend rankings.
Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) was suddenly a top runner with a few minutes of the session left, finishing third fastest.
Andrea Iannone (Team Pata GoEleven Ducati) was fourth fastest, ahead of two more V4-R riders, Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) and triple Cremona race winner in 2024, Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati).
The two BMW riders may have made a great early showing but Portimao was still a happy hunting ground for the Ducatis, with rookie Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team Ducati), Scott Redding (MGM BONOVO Racing Ducati) and Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team Ducati) filling the third row of the Race One grid, from seventh to ninth places, respectively.
Alex Lowes (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) was top Bimota rider in 10th place overall; Andrea Locatelli (Pata Maxus Yamaha) was 11th fastest and leading Yamaha rider, with Xavi Vierge (Honda HRC) the top Honda runner in 14th position.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—Friday WorldSBK
- Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) 1’39.995s
- Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.299s
- Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) +0.511s
- Andrea Iannone (Team Pata Go Eleven) +0.600s
- Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) +0.711s
Friday WorldSSP
Can Öncü (Yamaha bLU cRU Evan Bros Racing) ended the WorldSSP Superpole qualifying session at Portimao with a clear lead over his closest challenger Lucas Mahias (GMT94-Yamaha). The Turkish rider’s 1’42.944 best lap was less than two tenths from the track best time of 1’42.769, even after just one day of competition on track at the second round of the season.
MV Agusta Independent rider Federico Caricasulo (Motozoo ME air racing MV Agusta) was third quickest and will take the final place on the front row for Saturday’s opening race.
Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) put the lone 636cc Kawasaki in the entire field into fourth place, ahead of official MV Agusta rider Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) and Phillip Island Race One winner, Stefano Manzi (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha).
Marcel Schrötter (WRP Racing Ducati) placed seventh on the grid, and was the first Ducati rider in the Superpole rankings.
Valentin Debise (Renzi Corse Ducati) was eighth fastest, Jaume Masia (Orelac Racing VerdNatura Ducati) ninth and the opening day top ten was rounded out by yet another Ducati rider, Philipp Öttl (Feel Racing WorldSSP Team Ducati).
Championship leader Tom Booth-Amos (PTR Triumph Factory Racing) was 12th, and the leading Triumph rider on the timesheets. His team-mate Oli Bayliss was 17th.
Race One, over 17 laps, takes place on Saturday 29 March, at 12.35 local time in Portugal.
2025 Portugal WorldSBK Results—Friday WorldSSP
- Can Oncu (Yamaha BLU CRU Evan Bros Team) 1’42.944s
- Lucas Mahias (GMT94 Yamaha) +0.598s
- Federico Caricasulo (Motozoo ME AIR Racing) +0.626s
- Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki WorldSSP Team) +0.659s
- Bo Bendsneyder (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) +0.741s
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