Prior to the race getting underway heavy rain fell once again at Assen🃏 following a wet FP3 and Superpole.

But that wasn’t the case for long as blue skies arrived just in time for the start of the race, creatinꦕg even more confusion for riders and teams.

• Remy Gardner aiming t♌o get first WorldSBK podium in Race 1 at Assen 
• Toprꦇak Razgatlioglu and Alvaro Bautista discuss Race 1 strategy 

Most of the🐼 riders elected for slick tyres however, the intermediates were the tyre to be ওon as Nicholas Spinelli made a big impact early on.

The stand-in for Danilo Pe💎trucci took an early lead and cleared off as Sam Lowes d𝔉ove into pit lane at the end of lap one.

A 13-second lead was created by Spinelli by the end of lap two as Andrea Locatelli, who also had an intermediate front, beg♋an making progress.

Spinelli’s lead continued to grow as he pulled clear of Axel Bassani by over 24 seconds, however,🌟 the track was starting ไto dry quickly.

Trying to keep pace with Alvaro Bautista, Andrea Iannone made💎 a mistake coming out of turꦐn two as he highsided off his Panigale V4 R machine.

With seven laps gone, Spinelli’s intermedi♛ate tyre advantage was over as Bassani, Razgatlioglu and Bautista all lapped quickeಞr.

Bautista then set a new fastest lap of the race as he followed Razgatlioglu in overtak🐷ing Bassani.

A mistake from Razgatlioglu at the beginning of lap nine allowedꩲ Bautista to gain second place at turn one.

With nine laps to go Spinelli’s lead was down to 11 se🙈conds as Bautista and Razgatlioglu began to drop the group behind them.

At the conclusion of lap 14, Razgatlioglu produced a brilliant move on Bautista which was for second, but soon to be first as Spinelli was just a couple of corne꧟rs ahead.

However, more drama followed as a red flag was deployed beyond the two-thi⛄rd race distance, giving Sp🐻inelli victory in his first Superbike race.

The red flag was waved due to oil on circuit, which ♏was release🐟d by Locatelli’s Yamaha.