Ducati 1-2 on opening day of WorldSBK at Mandalika

2023 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship

Spherical Two – Mandalika, Indonesia

WorldSBK FP2

The monitor temperature was registering 52-degrees when FP2 obtained underway this afternoon at Mandlika however the circuit was a lot cleaner than the morning session and riders instantly improved their morning markers.

Jonathan Rea was the primary to get within the 1m33s and he did that solely a few minutes into the session.

Fallers in FP2 included Alvaro Bautista and Iker Lecuona.

It wasn’t till a lot later within the session that riders began dropping in 1m32s, the primary of these was set by Toprak Razgatlioglu however within the dying minutes the Turk was displaced first by Alvaro Bautista, after which by Michal Rinaldi who finally topped the session with a 1m32.468. That compares to Toprak’s race lap file of 1m32.162 and Superpole file of 1m31.371, each set right here final 12 months.

Jonathan Rea ended the day fourth quickest forward of Michael van der Mark, whereas Remy Gardner had an ideal opening day to complete P6 forward of Alex Lowes and Andrea Locatelli.

Bautista topped the pace charts at 294.3 km/h forward of Xavi Vierge at 292.7 km/h on the Honda. This circuit shouldn’t be significantly quick thus the gaps within the high speeds weren’t too unfold out nevertheless it was notable that the quickest Yamaha was 14th by means of the pace traps.

WorldSBK Friday Observe Mixed Occasions

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WorldSSP FP2

The Mandalika circuit had extra grip this afternoon regardless of the warmer monitor temperatures. A lot of the mud and dust had been displaced from the circuit after the opening World Superbike apply session. 

Circumstances had been nonetheless tough although with each Apiwath Wongthananon and Tarran Mackenzie taking place early, each unharmed.

Stefano Manzi went down late within the session after setting the tempo for a lot of the session however these previous couple of minutes he missed out on had been pricey because the Italian was shuffled down the order to P5 by the point the chequered flag got here out.

Nicolo Bulega once more was on high when it mattered to high Friday forward of Can Oncu and Niko Tuuli. Marcel Schroetter P4 forward of Manzi which made it 5 totally different producers within the high 5; Ducati, Kawasaki, Triumph, MV Agusta then Yamaha.

Oli Bayliss had some laps cancelled resulting from yellow flags and in addition exceeding monitor limits, {the teenager} ended Friday simply over 1.5-seconds from the Friday benchmark.

WorldSSP Friday Observe Mixed Occasions

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Mandalika WSBK Spherical Schedule

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World Superbike Championship Factors

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