2023-04-19 17:55:25
The Spanish Superbike Championship held this past weekend his second round of the season at the Motorland Aragón Circuita scenario that saw the return of the current ESBK national champion, Tito Rabat, once again in the ranks of Team Honda LaGlisse after the unexpected break between the Madrid structure and its former driver, Marc Alcoba, after the opening round in Jerez.
Rabat, who this year wanted to focus on his first full-time participation in the MotoE World Championship with the new Ducati V21L, received a call from Team LaGlisse at the last minute. to regain control of the motorcycle with which he triumphed last year, the CBR 1000 RR-R SPa reunion that has been resolved in the best possible way with a double of victories for the Catalan in the two races held in Alcañiz.
Tito already demonstrated from the first free practice his perfect harmony with the Japanese superbike, warning of his intentions with a second position in the timed practice that the starting grid dictated. giving up 35 thousandths in front of the poleman, Román Ramos.
In the first race of the weekend, the defending ESBK champion claimed a tight victory with two tenths of an advantage over the Japanese from JEG Racing, Naomichi Uramotoa podium that completed the Cantabrian Roman Ramoswho saw the checkered flag four tenths behind Rabat.
On Sunday, both Rabat and the former ESBK champion in 2021, Ivo Lopesthey offered us a beautiful and spectacular head-to-head that was not resolved until the final turn, when the Catalan from Team LaGlisse beat the Portuguese from the BMW EasyRace Team by 180 thousandths after a hasty overtaking in turn 12 of the Aragonese layout.
Rabat celebrated this magnificent result in Alcañiz on its social networks, and also did so sharing the video of the last lap with Lopes; In his publication, the former Moto2 world champion highlighted the times that both he and his BMW rival set in the last lap, rolling in 1’52two seconds off the World Superbike race record on this same track.
In that same post, a Facebook user was critical of Rabataccusing him of “Lack of humility” for winning “to people without a last name who attend Monday” and of “hinder the trajectory of other pilots” who want to stand out in the ESBK paddock.
Far from shutting up Rabat did not hesitate to reply to this user to make clear the level enjoyed by the grid of the Spanish Superbike Championship, where Tito is not the only former World Cup rider who has tried his luck. “I had the pleasure of being able to share the podium with two excellent riders, Ivo Lopes (born 09/19/96, 2021 ESBK Spanish Champion, former Superstock 1000 World Cup rider in 2013 and Supersport in 2018) and Román Ramos ( born on 01/06/91, Spanish ESBK champion in 2020, also a former Superstock 600 World Cup driver in 2008 and Superbike in 2015/16/17/18/20)”, says Tito in relation to his last race in Aragon.
The Team LaGlisse rider recalls that here, in the ESBK, other figures such as “that of the 2019 champion Maximilian Scheib and the greatest of all time in this championship, Carmelo Morales, who at 43 years old announced his retirement. Both are also World Cup drivers.”
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Rabat stresses that the ESBK “It is a championship of the highest level where adult, professional and historically in my category pilots race, authentic war veterans who continue to work and fight every day to be able to make the grade doing what they love the most”that is why he asks for respect and responds to criticism with a lapidary phrase: “Who would have to stop writing these comments so arrogant, ignorant and with so little humility, is you”, Tito Rabat added.
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