Overview

• Race 1 was restarted over 20 laps after a Turn 1 pile-up involving Axel Bassani, Tetsuta Nagashima, Michael van der Mark, Tarran Mackenzie and Bahattin Sofuoglu.
• Nicolo Bulega finished 1.948s behind in second, with Alvaro Bautista third, Andrea Locatelli fourth, Alex Lowes fifth and Jonathan Rea sixth.
• Toprak Razgatlioglu set the race’s fastest lap at 1:35.632 and earlier took pole with a new Estoril Superpole lap record of 1:34.203.
• Standings moved to 548 points for Razgatlioglu and 507 for Bulega, creating a mathematical path to seal the championship at Estoril on Sunday.
• Danilo Petrucci’s injury absence tightened the fight for third overall as Bautista cut the gap to 15 points, while crashes sidelined Yari Montella and Iker Lecuona and Sofuoglu retired after a black-and-orange flag.