2025 Portuguese World Superbike: Race 2 As It Happened
Live coverage of WorldSBK Race 2 from this weekend's Portuguese World Superbike round.
WorldSBK Race 2 is set to get underway at 14:00 local time in Portimao, and is scheduled for 20 laps.
Toprak Razgatlioglu starts on pole position after winning this morning's Superpole Race. He's on for a triple win, after beating Nicolo Bulega in both races so far this weekend.
Alvaro Bautista will join Razgatlioglu and Bulega on the front row after coming from ninth to third in the Superpole Race.
It's victory again for Toprak Razgatlioglu in WorldSBK Race 2 here in Portimao. That's a 60th career win, and a treble to match Bulega's in Australia.
Bautista in third, 3.5 seconds behind the leaders, while Locatelli and van der Mark round out the top-five.
Razgatlioglu leads onto the final lap and Bulega is again too far behind to pass into turn one.
A mistake from the Italian at turn one seems to have handed it to Bulega!
Remy Gardner has crashed out.
This time Razgatlioglu holds the lead into turn one as we enter the penultimate lap.
Tarran Mackenzie has crashed out at turn three.
Razgatlioglu again leads over the line but Bulega gets the run into turn one. He moves back to the outside for turn one, Razgatlioglu takes the inside and retakes the lead.
Razgatlioglu back through again at turn three! And he holds on at turn five.
Bulega starting to miss a few apexes here and there now, and it's opened the door for Razgatlioglu at turn 13. Bulega comes back at 14, but Razgatlioglu squares him off.
At turn one, Bulega reclaims the advantage with that Ducati traction from the final corner.
Mistake from Bulega at turn 13 briefly cost him the lead there, but he fired back at turn 14 to retake it.
0.2s between the two leaders over the line and Bautista now over a second behind them.
Bulega holds the lead over the line, and it's a 0.4s gap over Razgatlioglu. Bautista just about hanging on in third, but Locatelli dropping off in fourth now.
Razgatlioglu leads over the line but Bulega passes into turn one and reclaims the lead a lap after losing it.
Top two are pulling away now, and Bautista is up to third ahead of Locatelli.
Razgatlioglu passes Bulega at turn one, and the Italain runs wide, falling into the jaws of his teammate.
Alex Lowes crashed out at turn 12 on the opening lap.
Andrea Iannone has served a ride through penalty. He was handed it for not serving his double long lap in the original start. The Go Eleven team were arguing against it during the red flag.
Bulega leads the opening lap of this restarted race. It's still Locatelli in second, Razgatlioglu then in third, Bautista fourth.
Razgatlioglu passes Locatelli for second on the run to turn one beginning lap two.
We're back underway for WorldSBK Race 2 in Portimao. It's a holeshot for Bulega ahead of Locatelli, then Razgatlioglu and Bautista.
Riders off on their warm-up lap now.
Riders just arriving on the grid now for the warm-up lap.
Pit lane is now open for the quick start procedure.
The clear change on the grid compared to the original start is that Nicolo Bulega will start on pole position, having been leading when the race was stopped.
Pit lane to open in five minutes.
One big winner is Scott Redding - looks like he'll be able to take the restart.
World feed commentary reporting the pit lane will open for the quick start procedure at 14:30, so in around six minutes.
No time given yet for the pit lane to open, but the race will be restarted over 11 laps.
