The Turkish pilot Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha) was the most outstanding this Friday in the first day of free practice of the World Superbike Championship, an event that will take place this weekend at the Jerez-Ángel Nieto Circuit and is the twelfth and last of this edition, where the spanish Alvaro Bautista He was presented as the main favorite for the title.
In the premier Superbike class, Razgatlioglu, a contender for the title against Bautista, began leading the second free session, the only free session of the day due to the wet conditions in which the first took place, meaning four riders only. taken off the track, the organization reported in a statement.
The Pata-Yamaha rider managed to stop the clock with a time of 1.40.312, followed only by a few thousand by the Australian ex-MotoGP rider Remy Gardner who, also with Yamaha, in his case, in the GRT Yamaha ranks , achieved a record of 1,40,556.
The third best season was for the Spanish Alvaro Bautista (Ducati), who stopped the clock at 1.40.632 and suffered a fall without consequence at the start of the Dani Pedrosa curve, which forced him to go through the pits and re-emerge a few minutes later.
“I can say it was a good half day of work. Obviously with the track full of humidity we decided not to go out for FP1. In the afternoon, however, the conditions changed and better and, despite a small falling without consequences, “The feeling was good. I had fun and that is the feeling for tomorrow,” commented the Spaniard in the statements given by the Jerez Circuit.
The already proclaimed Supersport World Champion, the Italian Nicolo Bulega (Ducati)for its part, was awarded the best time of the second free session, ultimately the only one in which the entire grid took part.
Bulega set a time of 1.43.171, which endorsed 6 tenths over his compatriot Yari Montella (Ducati), who achieved 1.43.799. Stefano Manzi (Yamaha) was third with 1.44.012, as he qualified as the best Spanish Jorge Navarro in tenth position with a time of 1.44.733.
Source: La Verdad
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