Kawasaki driver Jonathan Rea, who has already won two straight games, is of course aiming for a three-game winning streak in the second qualifying race in the Netherlands, but that hope came to an abrupt halt after a collision with Yamaha driver Torak Razgatlioglu. For the crash, Rea believes that Razgatlioglu should have given in after running away, and his responsibility is greater: "Regarding the turn of the main race two, from my point of view, I was side by side with him on the straights. He braked 15 meters later than usual, and then he parked his car on the curb before going out, sacrificing a lot of speed, and the apex of my usual route was much faster."
"I just tried to maintain my route to the second bend, and then we bumped into each other. I was in front when we bumped together because he bumped into my rear wheel. The truth is that he made a mistake. He ran away. He slowed the car completely down to avoid getting out of the track, instead of giving me space, he knew who was next to him because I was almost going to overtake him at the first turn and he was just going back on track right away. "I'm on the race route with my usual speed. I looked up my data, and it was pretty normal, probably slower, because I expected something to happen. I expected there would be some space in this position, but it didn't." "In the case of Yasen it's usually the people on the outside who want to get there because someone comes in from the inside. Like I did on the first lap with Lecuona in the first corner, I went a little bit deeper and I knew you couldn't just go back to the track like that, you couldn't suddenly get into the race route." Ending the game in this way Rea thought it was really frustrating.
Razgatlioglu thought it was an accident and he never left the track, he felt Rea should pay attention to him, "I tried to brake a little heavier at the first corner, I threw a bit of a throw, but I didn't rush out of the track, I stayed on the line. I will come back again. Johnny tried to overtake me, but I think he made a small mistake because he didn't look at me. "I think it was a race accident, it was that Johnny didn't see my line, he just cared about his line. I think he had to look at the crash process again from my picture, not his picture. Because I'm in front and it's impossible to see him. He needed to check it out, and he didn't look at his left side. I think he was planning to push me out because I was running a little bit away and he tried to easily overtake me but he didn't look at me and that's the problem." Jonathan Rea's exit from Toprak Razgatlioglu makes Alvaro Bautista the biggest winner, giving him a temporary lead in the annual standings with an 18-point gap.