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Alvaro Bautista says 'motivation' for a new challenge prompted his move out of the title-challenging Ducati team for an expected shift to under-performing Honda

Alvaro Bautista scores victory in the final WorldSBK race of the weekend in Portugal, his first since Misano in June; Jonathan Rea leads standings by 91 points

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - Race 2 Results : Alvaro Bautista wins his first race since Misano with race two win

Jonathan Rea eases to another lights-to-flag win in Portimao as Alvaro Bautista climbs to second to set up a showdown for the final race of the WorldSBK weekend

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - Superpole Race : Jonathan Rea wins again, Alvaro Bautista fights back to second

Jonathan Rea extends his WorldSBK Championship lead with a tenth win of the season at Portimao; Alvaro Bautista finished fourth after fighting back from 17th

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - Race 1 : Jonathan Rea romps to a tenth WorldSBK win of the year in Portugal

Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea powers to WorldSBK pole position in Portimao from Tom Sykes as Ducati suffers a poor session with Alvaro Bautista down in sixth

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - Superpole : Jonathan Rea gets the better of Tom Sykes in Superpole, Bautista only 6th

2009 WorldSBK champion Ben Spies says Jonathan Rea immense comeback against Alvaro Bautista shows how no rider can afford to give up in the title fight

Alvaro Bautista on the Ducati goes quickest in Portimao WorldSBK FP2 but it is Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea that ends Friday as the man to beat in Portugal

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - FP2 Results : Alvaro Bautista quickest in FP2 but Jonathan Rea stays quickest overall

Jonathan Rea holds off Alvaro Bautista in a tightly-contested FP1 WorldSBK session at Portimao as the 2019 season kicks on again in Portugal

World Superbike Championship - Portugal WorldSBK - Round 10 - Portimao - FP1 Results : Jonathan Rea leads Alvaro Bautista in first free practice as series resumes

The WorldSBK Championship blasts for the run in to the 2019 title - but who should have spent the summer hiatus doing their homework?

Scott Redding says he is 'so happy' to be joining the factory Ducati team in the 2020 World Superbike Championship (WorldSBK) to replace Alvaro Bautista

It's been more than a decade since Kawasaki last competed in MotoGP. Given its success in WorldSBK, could it make a return?

The slump in form that has led to Alvaro Bautista to slip 81 points adrift of Jonathan Rea in the World Superbike Championship can be traced to the moment regulators decided to restrict revs on the Ducati Panigale V4 R, according to 11-time race winner Ruben Xaus.

KAWASAKI won its first Suzuka 8 Hours for more than two decades in controversial circumstances after Jonathan Rea crashed less than two minutes from the end of the race and was reinstated as the winner on appeal.