Alessandro Zaccone claimed the most emotional victory of his career at Aragon, holding his nerve through a frantic final lap to take his first World Supersport win and hand the Ecosantagata Althea Racing squad a triumph charged with meaning.
The Italian, riding the Ducati Panigale V2, won the 15-lap race by just 0.174 seconds after a closing lap that featured three changes of lead. Albert Arenas, on the AS BLU CRU Yamaha YZF-R9, threw everything at the move, briefly reclaiming the front at Turn 4, but Zaccone kept his composure and used the strong top-end of his Ducati to outgun the Spaniard down the back straight, edging clear by the time they reached the line. Tom Booth-Amos completed the podium in third.
For all the drama of the duel, the victory carried a significance that stretched well beyond the timing screens. It was the first win for the team since its founder, Genesio Bevilacqua, died in January 2026, a loss that had shaken everyone in the garage and, for a time, left real uncertainty over how the squad would press on.
Zaccone dedicated the result to Bevilacqua, reflecting that the founder's passing had been a shock but that his family had urged the team to continue and had given them their full backing, exactly as Bevilacqua himself would have wanted. That support, the rider suggested, was what made standing on the top step at Aragon feel all the more special.
The win also marked a personal breakthrough for Zaccone, who has long shown the raw pace to fight at the front of the closely contested Supersport category but had not previously managed to convert it into a victory. Doing so in a last-lap scrap against Arenas, one of the championship's standout performers, left little doubt about its legitimacy.
There was a consolation for the man he beat. Despite having to settle for second, Arenas extended his lead at the top of the World Supersport standings, keeping his title campaign firmly on track even on a day when the spoils, and the story, belonged to someone else.
For Zaccone and the Althea team, though, Aragon will be remembered as the weekend the hard months since January finally yielded the result they had been chasing, delivered in the most fitting way imaginable for the man whose name still drives the project forward.
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*Originally published on [Motorsports Global](https://motorsports.global/article/zaccone-maiden-worldssp-win-aragon-bevilacqua-tribute-2026). Visit for full coverage.*