The 2024 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship has been epic from the start and it’s building for one magical finish with just two rounds remaining. The tenth round of the year came from Alcaniz and MotorLand Aragon, where records were smashed, history repeated itself and big numbers achieved. All the stats you need to catch up on are below!
161 – His longest wait between wins for Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) in Ducati colours, Sunday marked the end of a 161-day drought since Assen in April.
100 – Bautista’s Race 2 win at Aragon was Spain’s 100th in WorldSBK.
75 – Garrett Gerloff’s (Bonovo Action BMW) rostrum in Race 1 was the 75th podium place for BMW; they finished the weekend on 77, courtesy of Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team).
26 – Bautista and Razgatlioglu finished 1-2 for the 26th time; the reverse order has happened 14 times.
20 – 20 Ducati wins at Aragon, they’ve won at least 20 at: Misano, Phillip Island, Assen and Magny-Cours.
19 – Andrea Iannone (Team GoEleven) became the 19th rider to win in both WorldSBK and MotoGP™.
11/12 – It’s the first time in 11 years that a Kawasaki has failed to achieve a top six finish across a race weekend. The last time was in Russia, 2013 when Loris Baz was the best one in P8 in Race 1. However, Race 2 was cancelled, so the last time that they missed a top six in a full weekend was coincidentally Aragon in 2012, when Tom Sykes had a DNF and a P8, whilst Baz had a DNF and a P20.
10 – Ten podiums without a victory at Aragon for Razgatlioglu, a record for any rider on any track.
9 – Nine wins for Bautista at Aragon, the first track where he reaches this tally.
8 – For the first time in 2024, Ducati won eight races straight; they did it twice last year.
8 – Eight winners in a WorldSBK season, the first time since 2012 with nine: Tom Sykes, Max Biaggi, Carlos Checa, Marco Melandri, Jonathan Rea, Chaz Davies, Loris Baz, Sylvain Guintoli and Eugene Laverty.
5 – For the first time since 2004, there’s been five different winners for a single manufacturer – Ducati. This year, Bautista, teammate Nicolo Bulega, Iannone, Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) and his Assen substitute Nicholas Spinelli have all won, across three different teams.
4 – Four Ducatis in the top four in Superpole for the first time since 2004 at Brands Hatch – Steve Martin ahead of Frankie Chili, Regis Laconi and Noriyuki Haga. Championship leader that day, James Toseland, was off the front row in P12, whilst 2024’s leader Razgatlioglu was the first non-Ducati in P5 on row two.
4 – There have been four new Italian winners in 2024: Bulega, Spinelli, Petrucci and Iannone. In terms of four new winners in the Championship overall in one season, it’s the first time this has happened since 2008: Fonsi Nieto, Max Neukirchner, Carlos Checa and Ryuichi Kiyonari.
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Source: WorldSBK.com