STATS ROUND-UP: Bautista matches Fogarty for podiums, Razgatligolu’s P1 or P2 streak ends in Australia
There were plenty of stats to come from the season-opening Australian Round with all the big numbers gathered in one place
The 2025 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship kicked off in style at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit not long ago, with Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) delivering a first career hat-trick while Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) had a run of first or second place finishes come to a sudden stop. All the key stats from the season-opening Australian Round are here, in one place for you to enjoy.
109 – Bautista claimed his 109th rostrum in Race 2, putting him level with four-time Champion Carl Fogarty
40 – Bautista became the second-oldest rider to stand on a WorldSBK rostrum in Race 1, at 40 years, 3 months and 1 day; he then beat that by a day in Race 2. The oldest is Max Biaggi, at 44 years, 1 month, 7 days
36/37 – Ducati secured their 36th win at Phillip Island, putting them one shy of the all-time best at a single circuit for a manufacturer (Misano, 37, Ducati)
26 – Bulega’s 26-point lead after three races is the fourth-biggest gap in WorldSBK history. A 33-point difference between first and second in 1995 (Fogarty and Schmidt) is the largest
25 – When at the same age of 25 years, 137 days, Bulega has half the number of wins as Razgatlioglu (9 compared to 18) in less than a third of races competed in (39 compared to 120)
25 – Bimota scored points for the first time in 25 years. Their last points-scoring racing before Race 1 came at the same venue in 2000, when the late Anthony Gobert took P9 in Race 2; he had won Race 1 the same year
10 – Razgatlioglu’s streak of P1 or P2 finishes since his comeback from injury came to an end when he was 13th in the Tissot Superpole Race
9/27 – Bulega has 27 podiums to his name, including nine wins: winning exactly one-third of the races he’s been on the rostrum at
8 – Bulega topped every session (FP1, FP2, FP3, Superpole, Warm Up) and won every race during the weekend, setting the fastest lap in two out of three races. The only other rider to set a fastest lap was Bautista in Race 2. The last time a rider topped every session was the 2024 Czech Round (Razgatlioglu)
7/6 – Race 2 was the seventh top-six lockout by Ducati, but the first since Race 2 at Misano in 2004
6 – Six manufacturers scored points in Race 2 in Australia (Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Honda, Bimota and BMW), the first time since Race 1 at Jerez in 2020 when Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Honda, Aprilia and BMW scored points
5/7 – out of the seven Race 2 he’s raced in at Phillip Island, Razgatlioglu has retired from five (2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025)
2 – Iannone took two podiums in Australia, the first time he’s taken multiple rostrums in a single WorldSBK round
1/3/5 – Bulega claimed his first WorldSBK hat-trick as he won all three races in Australia, becoming the fifth member of the hat-trick club after Bautista, Razgatlioglu, Rea and Petrucci
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