The sixth WorldSBK round continued today at the Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic. On Friday Kawasaki Puccetti Racing rider Tito Rabat completed two free practices, in which he worked with his technicians to set up the Ninja ZX-10RR KRT Factory Replica.
This morning, after FP3, the Spaniard was back out for Superpole, which established the starting grid for the subsequent Race 1. With a time of 1’32”113, Tito closed nineteenth and so started on the seventh row of the grid for Race 1.
The first race of this sixth round got underway this afternoon. Rabat did not make a particularly fast start but as the race went on he was able to pick up the pace and fight as part of the chasing group before crossing the line seventeenth just outside the points zone.
Kawasaki Puccetti Racing will round out the sixth WorldSBK round tomorrow with the Superpole race and Race 2.
Autodromo di Most – Czech Republic
Superbike World Championship
Superpole: 1) Razgatlioglu (BMW) – 2) Iannone (Ducati) – 3) Lowes (Ducati) – 4) Bulega (Ducati) – 5) Gardner (Yamaha) – 6) Petrucci (Ducati) ……… 19) Rabat (Kawasaki)
Race 1 – 1) Razgatlioglu (BMW) – 2) Petrucci (Ducati) – 3) Iannone (Ducati) – 4) Bautista (Ducati) – 5) Gardner (Yamaha) ……… 17) Rabat (Kawasaki)
Tito Rabat
“I gave it my all again today and pushed hard from start to finish. I fought for a long while with Bassani on the factory Kawasaki but in the end, I couldn’t do more than seventeenth. Unfortunately, we still have some problems to solve and that’s preventing me from scoring better results. I think it would have been hard for me to do more today and I’ll definitely continue to do my best in the next races, with the help of my team.”
