White hot!
THE WORLDSBK category in 2021 is a gift of incendiary action and off-track controversy that just keeps on giving, week after week.
This time around, at a warm and then wet Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, it was the no scores that mattered as much as the big points.
There has been some needle creeping in during the past few rounds. Verbally, both Jonathan Rea (KRT) and Scott Redding (Aruba.it Ducati) have had things to say about the passing tactics and general tactile approach of Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha).
Razgatlioglu is unhappy that he was pinged for going on the green in France and losing points. Redding will quip with the best of them, and his points haul for three second places in Portugal was the best of any of the top three riders.
Razgatlioglu snatched a seemingly certain Superpole ‘win’ from Rea, with a new track best of 1m40.219sec and, as we lined up for Race One,
