Rea dominates in Losail to finish off in style

Losail, Qatar: Jonathan Rea underlined his World Superbike dominance with a treble in Qatar to take his final tally of the season to 17, one more than Spaniard Alvaro Bautista.

Rea followed up his victories in Friday's first feature race and the Superpole race on Saturday by finishing first in the second feature event.

Five-time world champion Rea's finished 165 points ahead of second-placed Bautista in the final tally. The Kawasaki rider was chased home in race two by Ducati pair Chaz Davies and Bautista, who took second and third.

Alex Lowes took fourth and was third overall in the standings, while Toprak Razgatlioglu stormed through in a last-lap shuffle to take fifth, ahead of a scintillatingly fast Eugene Laverty (Team Goeleven) taking his best finish of the season.

Van der Mark, Baz, Haslam and Sandro Cortese (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK) completed the top ten, while Cortese’s teammate, Marco Melandri, failed to score points in his final race in the championship.