Forward of the ultimate three rounds of the 2025 World Superbike season, the manufacturing unit BMW, Bimota and Honda groups, plus Marc VDS Ducati, had been current for the beginning of a two-day take a look at at Jerez in Spain.
Title chief Toprak Razgatlioglu dipped underneath the official race document to steer the timesheets by 0.244s from Sam Lowes, with Honda’s Xavi Vierge +1.042s from the BMW rider in third.
Razgatlioglu’s team-mate Michael van der Mark was a fraction behind Vierge, with Bimota take a look at rider Javi Fores sixth on the machines of Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani.
Testing continues on Wednesday, forward of the Aragon spherical from September 26 -28. That might be adopted by a go to to Estoril earlier than Jerez hosts the season finale on October 17-19.
Razgatlioglu, who turned the tables on Nicolo Bulega by profitable race 2 of final 12 months’s Jerez spherical, at the moment holds a 39-point WorldSBK title benefit over the Ducati rider.
Jerez WorldSBK Take a look at (Day 1, Tuesday) | ||||
Rider | Nat | Machine | Time | |
1 | Toprak Razgatlioglu | TUR | BMW | 1:38.442s |
2 | Sam Lowes | GBR | Ducati | +0.244s |
3 | Xavi Vierge | SPA | Honda | +1.042s |
4 | Michael Van Der Mark | NED | BMW | +1.166s |
5 | Tetsuta Nagashima | JPN | Honda | +1.980s |
6 | Javi Fores | SPA | Bimota | +2.114s |
7 | Marcel Schrotter | GER | BMW | +2.896s |
8 | Tommy Bridewell | GBR | Honda | +2.943s |
9 | Ana Carrasco | SPA | Honda* | +7.182s |
*Supersport.
Official Jerez World Superbike lap data:
Greatest lap: Niccolo Bulega, Ducati, 1m 37.596s (2024)
Quickest race lap: Nicolo Bulega, Ducati, 1m 38.528s (2024)