STATS ROUND-UP: a round of firsts as Donington Park delivers unpredictability
We predicted that it could be unpredictable, and the stats say just that as we put the major milestones in one place
It really was a record-breaking fifth round of the 2022 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship, as major milestones were achieved and super stats were racked up. From Kawasaki achieving 500 podiums to Ducati just missing out on their 1000th and a round of firsts elsewhere, we’ve put the Prosecco DOC UK Rounds stats into one pile after Donington Park, and they make for interesting reading.
999 – Ducati literally can’t get much closer: Alvaro Bautista’s (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) second place was the 999th podium for the Italian manufacturer, now just one away from becoming the first to reach 1000 in any FIM solo road racing World Championship. It was their best Donington Park result since 2016’s Race 1.
503 – Kawasaki stood on the podium in all three races at Donington Park, with a first double podium of the season with Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) and teammate Alex Lowes in Race 1. This saw the manufacturer achieve 500 podiums in the category, and they’ve already started the journey to 600.
99 – A first hat-trick of wins for Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK) mean Yamaha now have 99 wins; they could hit 100 at Most, where they won two races last year.
51 – Razgatlioglu achieved his 50th Yamaha podium in the Superpole Race, before going on to make it 51 with victory in Race 2. He’s 20 behind the manufacturer’s record holder, Noriyuki Haga.
51 – Thanks to Scott Redding’s (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) maiden BMW podium, BMW now have 51 podium places in World Superbike.
43 – Razgatlioglu is now 43 points behind the Championship leader. After five rounds of 2021, he was 37 behind. After 12 rounds of 2021, he sported a 30-point lead…
37 – Bautista’s Race 2 podium puts him on 37 Ducati podiums, the same as Scott Redding. He’s one behind Carlos Checa.
30 – Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) took a 30th career podium at Donington Park. He now has one more than 1997 WorldSBK Champion John Kocinski and is level with Ducati hero Giancarlo Falappa.
22 – Championship contenders Bautista and Razgatlioglu are now level on 22 WorldSBK wins, thanks to the Turk’s maiden hat-trick. Both are one clear of double WorldSBK Champion, Max Biaggi and level with Marco Melandri.
20 – Razgatlioglu now has 20 wins with Yamaha, just the second rider to achieve this in the manufacturer after Haga, who is on 27.
15 – Rookie Iker Lecuona (Team HRC), following Alvaro Bautista’s crash in Race 1, is now the only rider on the grid to have finished all 15 races of 2022, all being inside the top ten.
10 – For the 10th time in 2022’s 15 races, Razgatlioglu, Bautista and Rea are on the podium together.
10 – Lowes’ podium means he becomes the tenth rider to achieve ten podiums for Kawasaki and he’s tenth overall in the Kawasaki podium standings. His last podium before this one came in the ten-lap Tissot Superpole Race at Magny-Cours.
9 – A maiden podium with BMW for Scott Redding sees him become the ninth different rider to achieve a podium with the German manufacturer. The others are: Marco Melandri, Leon Haslam, Chaz Davies, Tom Sykes, Michael van der Mark, Troy Corser, Michel Fabrizio and Ayrton Badovini.
9 – In WorldSSP, Dominique Aegerter (Ten Kate Racing Yamaha) took a ninth straight win, equalling Andrea Locatelli’s all-time record of consecutive victories from 2020.
6 – Jonathan Rea’s lap record pole position at Donington Park extended British riders’ domination in Superpole in recent years at home, with it being the sixth straight pole for a home-rider there.
5 – Also in World Supersport, after Race 2 at Donington Park, five Italian riders finished in the top six for the first time ever.
4 – Staying in WorldSSP, Raffaele De Rosa (Orelac Racing VerdNatura WorldSSP) took a first podium with Ducati machinery in Race 1. This was the fourth manufacturer he’d taken a podium with (after Honda, MV Agusta and Kawasaki). Only Fabian Foret had previously achieved this, with Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha.
3 – Razgatlioglu’s triple at Donington Park makes him just the third rider to do it – Bautista and Rea are the others. He’s also the first rider to achieve it this year.
1 – For the first time this season, Team HRC went a full round without achieving a top five in a race.
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