Superbike World Championship Donington, Race 2 Grid: A bitter setback for Iker Lecuona

In the first SBK race on Saturday and the sprint race on Sunday, the riders will start according to their Superpole results. For the second main race on Sunday, which starts at 16.30 CET at the Donington Park Circuit, there will be a revised starting grid. The top nine finishers from the sprint race will occupy the first three rows of the grid. The remaining riders, who will start the second race from 10th place onwards, will be positioned according to their Superpole results.

If, for example, the Superpole winner crashes in the sprint race, he will, in the worst-case scenario, drop back to 10th on the grid for the second race. The biggest loser is Saturday’s winner, Iker Lecuona from the Aruba Ducati factory team, who crashed whilst leading the Superpole race and must therefore drop back eight places from second on the grid.

The biggest beneficiaries in central England are the Bimota factory riders Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, who will each move up three places on the grid to positions 4 and 5 respectively.

The injured Ducati privateers Tarran Mackenzie and Alberto Surra are no longer in the running.

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