Last weekend’s Argentina round may have been a success, with a healthy weekend attendance of almost 80,000, but it also arguably marked the end of any remaining intrigue there may have been in the fight for World Superbike championship honours.
Two straightforward wins for Alvaro Bautista in the two main races at El Villicum means the Ducati rider is looking near certain to win the title. His main rivals Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea, now respectively 82 and 98 points behind, would need an extraordinary amount of luck to reverse the tide in the remaining two events of the season.
