Cremona, Race 2: Spectacular Alcoba secures second Kawasaki victory – Öttl 7th

The second race of the 2026 Supersport World Championship at the Cremona Circuit got underway at 2.00 pm. At the start of the race, the temperature was a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius. With two rounds still to go and 100 points up for grabs, it was unlikely that Albert Arenas would be able to clinch the title early – for that to happen, the Yamaha rider would have to win both races, whilst the championship runner-up, Valentin Debise (ZX Moto), could score no more than one point.

On the starting grid, the two remaining title contenders were positioned close together. For the second race, the top nine riders were placed according to their fastest lap times from Race 1. From 10th on the grid, the order was determined by the Superpole results. Tom Booth-Amos (Triumph), Race 1 winner Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki) and Debise therefore started from the front row. Arenas was lying in wait in fourth on the grid.

Philipp Öttl (Ducati) benefited from the rule and improved significantly from 17th to 9th on the grid. Dominique Aegerter (Kawasaki), on the other hand, dropped three places to 15th. Andreas Kofler (Yamaha) was 34th and thus last on the grid.

Arenas catapulted himself straight into the lead with a lightning-fast start, with Debise lining up behind him. Booth-Amos, Alcoba and Farioli made up the top five after the first lap. Öttl got off to a solid start and was in tenth place. Aegerter dropped back to 20th place. QJ rider Raffaele De Rosa retired with a mechanical fault.

Whilst Arenas set the fastest lap unchallenged in 1:31.854, Debise and Booth-Amos battled it out behind him. The Triumph rider, who usually only shows his strength in the second half of the race, prevailed and set off in pursuit of the Yamaha rider.

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After five laps, Arenas had extended his lead to one second. However, Booth-Amos made it clear with a time of 1:31.751 that he hadn’t given up on victory just yet. Meanwhile, Alcoba, Farioli and Debise battled for the final place on the podium. Öttl finished eighth as the best Ducati rider.

The Englishman was building up momentum and, by the middle of the race, had improved his time to 1:31.587 minutes, overtaking Arenas. His team-mate Aldi Mahendra (Yamaha) had crashed at Turn 1 and was scrambling to keep up with the field in last place. Debise posed no threat to the World Championship leader: the Frenchman could no longer keep up with the pace and rode alone in fifth position. Öttl (7th) closed the gap on Can Öncü (6th/Yamaha), whilst Aegerter had moved into the top 15.

Alcoba was also picking up pace on the tail of Booth-Amos. When the Triumph rider took the lead for the first time on lap 11, the Race 1 winner was almost within striking distance, trailing by 0.4 sec. Farioli followed 1.5 seconds behind. Öttl had, in the meantime, overtaken Öncü and was in sixth place – but, trailing Debise by 2.7 seconds, the Bavarian could no longer close the gap under his own steam.

With five laps to go, Arenas went for the win. The Yamaha rider stepped up the pace once more, snatched the lead from Booth-Amos and pulled a few metres clear of him. To keep his chances of a one-two finish alive, Alcoba also stepped up a gear and made short work of the Englishman too.

By the end of the penultimate lap, Alcoba had fought his way onto the Yamaha rider’s tail and overtook him. The Kawasaki rider rode the final lap with a knife between his teeth and crossed the line as the jubilant winner, 0.5 seconds ahead of Arenas. The Spaniard has exposed his sacking from Kawasaki for 2027 as a grossly misguided decision. Arenas and Booth-Amos completed the podium.

Finishing fifth, Debise once again missed out on the top three, much to the disappointment of many ZX-Moto fans who had travelled from China.

Philipp Öttl came under pressure in the closing stages as his tyres wore out and lost sixth place to Jaume Masià. The Feel Racing Ducati rider had to draw on all his skills to hold off the pressing Federico Caricasulo (ZX Moto) and Matteo Ferrari (Ducati).

Dominique Aegerter secured a consolation result in 12th place, 15 seconds behind. Andi Kofler crossed the finish line in 27th place.