2025 Official Navarra British Superbike Test Results – Day 1 (Sunday)

Closing laps instances from Sunday on the first official 2025 British Superbikes take a look at at Navarra which noticed Glenn Irwin go quicker within the afternoon session to pip Danny Kent to day one honours.

Glenn Irwin picked up the tempo to complete the opening day of BSB testing at Navarra with the highest time for Hagar PBM Ducati. 

The climate improved, with damp patches on monitor at turns 9 via to 10 in session one, and so did Irwin, who had been second to Danny Kent within the opening session however moved forward with a 1m 45.324s lap, a brand new document on the resurfaced and altered structure on the Spanish monitor.

Earlier than then, it had been Danny Kent main the best way as he had accomplished within the opening stint out on monitor, ending with the second greatest total time from that session, a 1m 45.341s effort, simply 0.017s slower for the McAMS Yamaha rider.

Third on monitor was visitor rider Scott Redding, getting in further monitor time on the Ducati, with Tommy Bridewell third of the BSB riders, for a lot of the second session he shared a time with Glenn Irwin earlier than he went on to prepared the ground, leaving Bridewell subsequent for Honda Racing UK, simply forward of teammate Andrew Irwin.

Danny Kent’s run on his different set-up positioned sixth on a tough working day for the previous Moto3 champion, with Josh Brookes claiming the seventh greatest total lap as he adjusted to his new DAO Racing Honda equipment.

Charlie Nesbitt briefly lead the second session on his solution to the eighth greatest time for MasterMac Honda, with Leon Haslam, one other rider on a special bike for 2025 ninth quickest for Moto Rapido Ducati. Nesbitt’s new teammate John McPhee made a robust debut on the second MasterMac Honda to finish the opening day inside the highest ten on his debut within the class.

Fraser Rogers was shut behind on the timesheets in eleventh for TAG Honda, whereas Peter Hickman, now at 8Ten Honda positioned twelfth, however with Kent’s run amalgamated and Redding’s visitor time eliminated they have been amongst the highest ten BSB riders on monitor..

The second session noticed a quick purple flag to assist the elimination of Ben Currie’s BSS bike. John McPhee suffered a late technical concern on his return to trace for the ultimate minutes of monitor time reserved for British Superbike riders solely.

Josh Brookes had a small off at flip 15 however instantly rejoined the monitor.

There was no defending champion on monitor, after the shock late withdrawal of the OMG Yamaha staff, leaving 2024 winner Kyle Ryde, 2022 champion Bradley Ray and rookie Joe Talbot all and not using a assured seat on the eve of the brand new season.

Official Navarra BSB data:

Navarra skilled a renovation after the final British Superbikes go to. The monitor was not solely resurfaced however prolonged, so very new quickest lap will likely be a brand new lap document of the Spanish circuit.

Session 1 Sunday:  Danny Kent 1m 45.341s
Session 2 Sunday : Glenn Irwin 1m 45.324s

Navarra BSB in 2024:

Superpole lap: Danny Kent 1m 36.609s (outdated structure)
Heat-up lap: Danny Kent 1m 36.253s (outdated structure)
Race 1: 1 Ryan Vickers 2 Kyle Ryde 3 Danny Kent
Race 2: 1 Ryan Vickers 2 Danny Kent 3 Kyle Ryde

The morning session noticed Kent prepared the ground with the most effective time (1m 45.341s), set on his last lap  to maneuver forward of Glenn Irwin’s PBM Ducati, who was second, 0.230s behind the Yamaha, with and Brookes third after shifting to DAO Honda for 2025.

Andrew Irwin was simply forward of Honda Racing teammate Bridewell, with Haslam seventh.

As certainly one of a number of visitor and help class riders on monitor, Redding was within the high ten in session one, setting the seventh greatest time total. 

McPhee completed his first BSB monitor outing with the eighth greatest BSB time set on his MasterMac Honda debut, simply behind the time of his new teammate, Nesbitt.

Rory Skinner was the primary rider to present a sign of the attainable instances on the brand new structure, ending tenth for Cheshire Mouldings, now on a Ducati.

There have been two purple flags within the first time on monitor, the primary early on for a technical concern at flip eight. 

The second was for a extra extreme incident – a crash for Lewis Rollo, which noticed the Aprilia rider taken to the medical centre, then onto hospital for x-rays and precautionary checks after sustaining a painful harm to the decrease again.

Rollo was later discharged from hospital however will now miss the second day of the take a look at.

There’s extra monitor motion at Navarra on Monday, operating to the identical time schedule as Sunday, with a 8:30am begin UK timefor Session 1 and a 1pm begin for session 2.

There are two additional BSB assessments earlier than the season will get underway, with a go to to Donington Park (April 18-19) and Oulton Park (April 23-24) forward of the opening spherical at Oulton over 3-5 Could.