2025 Australian World Superbike Race 1 Results: Bulega dominates season opener

Nicolo Bulega opened the 2025 World Superbike Championship with a dominant victory in Australia, beating Toprak Razgatlioglu and Alvaro Bautista.

The Italian opened up a lead of round six seconds earlier than he made his obligatory pit cease on lap 9, the earliest alternative.

Bautista stopped on the identical lap, however misplaced out to Razgatlioglu who went one lap longer and emerged in second after the pit cease cycle.

Bulega re-established his six-second lead after the stops and managed that comfortably to the top, rolling off within the remaining laps and letting the hole fall to 4.8 seconds.

Razgatlioglu maintained second for the second half of the race, regardless of a late push from Bautista; the Spaniard finally developing 0.297 seconds in need of second place.

Danilo Petrucci was the very best unbiased rider in fourth, forward of Scott Redding and Andrea Iannone in what was an all-satellite-Ducati battle for fourth place. Iannone had been working in second place early on however quickly slowed at flip three within the first stint and dropped to ninth, finally recovering to sixth.

Andrea Locatelli, Alex Lowes (who obtained a 0.6-second penalty for exceeding the pit intervention time), Axel Bassani, and Sam Lowes rounded out the highest 10.

Michael van der Mark had featured on the entrance in direction of the top of the primary stint, however crashed out at flip one, seemingly unhurt.

Iker Lecuona did not begin the race after struggling an damage in Superpole. Zaqhwan Zaidi did not take the beginning having missed the 105 per cent qualifying time in Superpole.