World Supersport Assen, Netherlands - Race Results (2)

Dominique Aegerter has completed a second WorldSSP double of the season, while championship rival Steven Odendaal loses vital points following a turn five crash. 

Just like race one, Philipp Oettl made his way past both Aegerter and Odendaal for the lead on lap one. 

Championship contenders Aegerter and Odendaal battled hard behind race leader Oettl, but on lap five, Aegerter got ahead of the German rider while Odendaal was relegated to fourth. Odendaal’s battle with Jules Cluzel was proving a costly one as the pair lost over a second to Aegerter and Oettl. 

Then came a huge moment in the title fight as Odendaal crashed at turn five while trying to reel in the leading duo. The South African remounted to finish 13th.

Aegerter then began to gap Oettl - just as he did in race one - on his way to claiming a fifth consecutive WorldSSP win. 

Oettl took a season best second place ahead of Randy Krummenacher who claimed his first podium of the year.

Galang Hendra Pratama’ race two was over before it really got going after a crash at turn one, while an incident between Raffaele De Rosa and Federico Caricasulo saw both men go down. Caricasulo initially got going again, however, the Italian pulled into pit lane on lap two to retire.  

Race one

Dominique Aegerter sets new race lap records at will to take his fourth WorldSSP win of the season at Assen. 

After a slight delay to race one due to Jonas Folger’s WorldSBK crash, the race got underway with a raft of lead changes taking place. 

Aegerter, Odendaal and Oettl all led throughout lap one, which was again the case on lap two. 

Things began to calm down on lap four as the top three stretched away from the chasing group - led by Manuel Gonzalez. 

As the race went on, Oettl was unable to hold the pace of Aegerter and Odendaal, instead settling for third. After trying to hold on until the final lap, Odendaal found Aegerter’s pace too hot to handle and eventually finished three seconds down. 

Hannes Soomer was declared unfit before the race began after suffering a big Superpole crash - Estonian rider was scheduled to start fourth.  

Pawel Szkopek suffered his second crash of the day on lap four and subsequently retired from the race. Niki Tuuli had a big crash coming out of the final corner when a highside after avoiding Randy Krummenacher saw the Finn slide along the start-finish straight. Raffaele De Rosa also crashed out of the race on the final lap (turn five).