The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship heads to the Circuito Estoril for the penultimate round of the 2024 campaign. With titles on the line, there’s plenty to be excited about for the Estoril Round. Ahead of the action getting underway, we’ve gathered some of the key numbers to whet your appetite ahead of a crucial round…
115-118 – After Andrea Iannone’s win at Aragon, Italy now has 115 wins, 3 short of Australia (3rd all-time spot).
43 – Ducati has yet to record a pole position at Estoril. So far, they’ve recorded pole position in Superpole at 43 tracks out of 53 they’ve visited in their history.
20 – In 2021, Estoril became the 20th track in which Jonathan Rea won, setting a new record in WorldSBK history. He then improved and is at 22 now.
16 – In the 13 races run so far at Estoril, 16 different riders stood on the podium.
15/24 – Toprak Razgatlioglu, on his return, maintained his standards, posting 3 podiums out of 3. So far, he has recorded 21 podiums out of 24 starts for BMW, and, with an 87,5% podium score, it is, at the moment, the best in history with Kevin Magee, the latter though racing only 8 times with Yamaha and posting 7 podiums. Razgatlioglu’s best challenger is Jonathan Rea, who ended his Kawasaki experience with an 80,9% podium rate (221 podiums out of 273), then…himself, who claimed 100 podiums in his 131 races for Yamaha (76,3%).
15/17 – Toprak Razgatlioglu counts 15 wins this season and is 2 short of the second all-time value of 17, recorded for the first time in 1991 by Doug Polen, and equalled only in 2018 and 2019 by Jonathan Rea. The all-time record of 27 by Bautista last year, is unreachable this season.
14 – Yamaha leads Ducati for podium finishes at Estoril: 14 to 11. Yamaha is on a streak of 11 races on the podium here started in 1993 Race 1.
9 – Estoril has so far had 9 different winners out of 13 races run. The only ones to record more than a win have been Toprak Razgatlioglu (2), and Jonathan Rea (4).
9 – Toprak Razgatlioglu is the only rider who climbed on the podium 9 times here, all his Estoril races. Jonathan Rea follows at 6.
5 – Estoril is the only track in WorldSBK history where 5 different winners won the first 5 races run (Davide Tardozzi and Stephane Mertens in 1988, Fabrizio Pirovano and Carl Fogarty in 1993, Toprak Razgatlioglu in 2020 Race 1).
4/5 – Jonathan Rea has won four of the last five races at Estoril, with Alvaro Bautista winning the other. Scott Redding has also won at Estoril, with Toprak Razgatlioglu winning twice back in 2020.
3 – On WorldSBK’s last visit to Estoril, all three races were decided on the final lap: Jonathan Rea won twice for Kawasaki, while Alvaro Bautista took one win for Ducati.
3-4 – Yamaha became the most successful manufacturer at Estoril in 2020, taking their victory tally to three, equalling Ducati, but they were overcome in 2022 as both Ducati and Kawasaki upped their tally to 4.
1 – In 2020, the Tissot Superpole Race at Estoril was the stage for the first Yamaha podium lockout in WorldSBK history.
1 – In 2020 at Estoril, Toprak Razgatlioglu took his maiden pole position, the first for a Turkish rider.
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Source: WorldSBK.com