The sunset schedule of the 2024 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship’s Pirelli Portuguese Round proved to bring history in abundance and a new dawn for records to be shattered in the future. A weekend that a new all-time WorldSBK win streak established, spooky numbers tallying up and impressive opening lap starts, the key stats tell all-important stories below.
365 – 365 points for Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team), the second-highest a rider has achieved in the three-race format after 21 races since 2019. The most is Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) with 391 from last year.
300 – The 300th race in the points for Ducati; they only have their own record ahead of at 344 set from 1991 to 2005.
100 – Becoming the seventh rider in WorldSBK to achieve 100 podiums, Alvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) took his 100th rostrum in Race 1 at Portimao.
54 – It was a 54th win for the #54 as Toprak Razgatlioglu made it a fourth triple in succession, the first rider to achieve this. He also moved ahead of Troy Bayliss in the win rankings and into fourth overall.
43 – Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) is on 43 podiums after Race 2 at Portimao, one more than 2014 World Champion Sylvain Guintoli.
39 – Xavi Vierge (Team HRC) has gained a total of 39 positions from his starting positions in 2024 so far on opening laps, with 20 of those coming in the last two rounds. Two add onto that, he has always gained positions from Misano’s Superpole Race onwards, with the exception of Race 2 at Portimao where he started in P7 and finished Lap 1 in P7, although he was a high as P5 in the opening sector.
22/2 – 22 front row starts for the #22 of Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK), who took two podiums on Sunday. It was also his second consecutive P2 starting position at Portimao, following on from last year and his fourth front row for Kawasaki there in five events, missing out in 2021.
17 – Starting from a 17th pole, Toprak Razgatlioglu equalled Doug Polen for poles and is tied in sixth overall in the pole rankings.
15 – Even after just seven rounds, Toprak is enjoying his best season in terms of wins with 15 in total.
13 – As well as his 54 wins, Toprak also set a new record for consecutive wins – 13, beating the 11 previously set by Jonathan Rea and Alvaro Bautista.
9 – Race 2 gave Alex Lowes a ninth podium of the year, equalling his best season tally fro 2019.
5 – Five poles in 2024 for Toprak, a new personal record, beating his tally of four from 2022 and 2023.
4 – For the fifth time this year, a BMW rider was 4th; none of those were by Razgatlioglu, but by 3 different BMW riders (Van der Mark and Redding twice and Gerloff once).
4 – A best result of the year by Garrett Gerloff (Bonovo Action BMW) with P4 in Race 1, matching his best with BMW which also came at the same circuit.
1 – For the first time in his WorldSBK career, Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team) led a lap in Race 1 at Portimao.
0.035s – The closest finish of the 2024 season in Race 2, Razgatlioglu beating Bulega.
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Source: WorldSBK.com