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The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship hits MotorLand Aragon as the first of two double headers to end the season concludes, and there’s plenty of things to watch out for during the Tissot Aragon Round. Make sure you’re up to speed with potential milestones, records and more with the stats guide below…

117 – 117 races have been run on Spanish soil so far. The presence of Spain in WorldSBK began at Jerez in 1990 on the 18th March, the opening round of that season.

100 – Xavi Vierge, with his next start, will become the 71st rider with at least 100 WorldSBK races.

44 – In 2011, Aragon became the 5^th Spanish track in WorldSBK history and the 44^th overall.

34 - Aragon, with 34 races since 2011, is the Spanish track with most races held, ahead of Jerez (23).

28 – From the second 2013 race until last year’s Superpole Race, at least one Kawasaki rider has climbed on the podium in each of the 28 races run there. The streak ended last year in Race 2 (best Kawasaki: Rea, 4th).

28x2 – The last 28 races run here were won by only two manufacturers: Ducati (17 times) and Kawasaki (11). The string started in 2014: before that year, they hadn’t posted a single win at Aragon; now, they are the two most successful constructors here.

26 - With 26 Aragon podiums, Rea last year set the record for podiums at a given track, surpassing his tally of 25 he posted at Assen (now he has 25 podiums also at Portimao).

25-1 - Rea missed out on a podium just once with Kawasaki at Aragon: an incredible string of 25 started with a win in 2015, Race 1 and ended last year (he was 4^th in Race 2). This is an absolute record streak for a given track in WorldSBK history. His nearest rival is Carl Fogarty, with 15 straight podiums at Assen (1992-1999).

17 – Ducati is the most successful manufacturer at Aragon with 17 wins to Kawasaki’s 11.

13 – Toprak Razgatlioglu's lead in the title race has been cut to just 13 points ahead of Nicolo Bulega.

12/20 – Nicolo Bulega is nearing the record of second places in a season, 12 now, third all-time value with Scott Russell in 1993 and Alvaro Bautista in 2022.  His title rival Razgatlioglu holds the record at 20, set last year. The second all-time value is 16 by Jonathan Rea in 2019. Curiously, the weekends in which he won at least one race (Phillip Island, Magny-Cours) are the only ones in which he didn’t finish 2nd in any race.

10 – The lowest starting spot for a win here is 10th: Chaz Davies in Race 2, 2017.

9 – Jonathan Rea has nine wins at Aragon, with Chaz Davies and Alvaro Bautista behind him with seven.

6-8 – Danilo Petrucci is on a streak of 6 podium finishes, only two short of the best ever streak by an Italian rider: 8 by Michel Fabrizio in 2009 from Monza/1 to Misano/2.

5 – Ducati is on a winning streak of 5 wins without Alvaro Bautista being one of their winners since 2016, when Chaz Davies nailed a streak of 6 from Magny-Cours/1 to Lusail/2.

5 – Ducati has recorded the best winning streak here: 5, twice: from 2018 Race 2 to 2020 Race 1, and in the last 5 run here. They are thus in the position to improve on their own record.

4-4 – Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea are tied for the record of pole positions at Aragon: 4 each.

3-4 – Danilo Petrucci recorded his first 3 WorldSBK wins in sequence and, if he wins Race 1 in Aragon, can become the second rider in history with his first win followed by 3 more after Alvaro Bautista, who posted his first 11 wins in sequence at the start of 2019.

3 – Only three countries have won here: Great Britain (21 wins), Italy (6) and Spain (7, all by Bautista).

1 – Aragon is the track that gave Michael Ruben Rinaldi a first win (2020, Teruel) and a first start in 2018.

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