IT HAS been a very long seven weekends since the last overheated WorldSBK round at Mandalika in Indonesia, even if we had some significant in-season tests at the likes of Aragon and Barcelona.
But testing is testing, and racing is racing, and once again Alvaro Bautista (Aruba Ducati) was untouchable in each points-scoring adventure, even the final one when both Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha) and Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) tried to beat him up a bit in the early laps.
In each race, no matter the occasional chaos that was going on around him (actually behind him), Bautista overcame his penalised start to Race 1 to win them all at Assen. Eight wins from nine races, and it shows little sign of stopping. And his final Race 2 win made it 400 WorldSBK victories for Ducati.
On track the competition was as fierce as ever, in a slightly weird comeback weekend where
