Two more for Toprak
Round 10 Circuito de Jerez, Spain, 24-26 September 2021 WorldSBK Championship
EVERYTHING THAT happened after the fatal accident suffered by 15-year-old Dean Berta Viñales on Saturday rang hollow compared to any other WorldSBK weekend. How could it not?
But despite the cancellation of Saturday’s WorldSBK and WorldSSP races, the racing continued on Sunday, for all three classes, with a modified schedule. Berta Viñales’s family had spoken with the organisers to give their approval to continue racing and the organisers had spoken with riders in all classes on Saturday night. Even the WorldSSP300 riders would race again on Sunday, which was met with approval and disapproval from inside and outside the paddock.
The Sunday schedule was changed, meaning the usual WorldSBK 10-lap Tissot-Superpole race was replaced – effectively – by ‘Saturday’s’ Race One, at 11am. Hence two full-distance, full-points, WorldSBK races on a Sunday, almost like the old days.
On Saturday, Tissot Superpole qualifying had
