Indonesia WSBK: Razgatlioglu maintains good form as he dominates FP2

Indonesia WSBK: Razgatlioglu maintains good form as he dominates FP2

Toprak Razgatlioglu maintains his FP1 advantage to finish two tenths clear of title rival Jonathan Rea in World Superbike FP2 at Mandalika.

Despite being 1.5 seconds down on Razgatlioglu’s overall best time from FP1, Alex Lowes quickly improved to go within two tenths of the Yamaha rider’s 1:34.985s.

Jonathan Rea, who lost considerable track time in FP1 due to a technical issue, then went quickest for this session, second overall.

Lowes then crashed at turn two – the same spot as replacement rider for Loris Cresson, Oliver Konig did this morning. While that was happening, Razgatlioglu went +0.003s down on Rea’s best FP2 time.

After following each other for a couple of laps, Razgatlioglu dropped back from Rea to then start another push lap, a lap that saw him go fastest, although not quite enough to beat his own time from earlier on.

However, Razgatlioglu did eventually go on to better his fastest lap of the day on his very next lap. A time of 1:34.815s put him -0.199s clear of Scott Redding who was just the second rider at this stage to set a sub 1m 35s lap.

After a brief return to pit lane, Razgatlioglu re-joined the track with team-mate Andrea Locatelli in close proximity. The Turkish rider went another fourth tenths faster which helped the Italian move up to second – six tenths behind the series leader. 

Rea managed to split the two Pata Yamaha riders as he went just under two tenths down on Razgatlioglu, but this time it was sector one not four where the Kawasaki rider struggled to match Razgatlioglu.

Impressive efforts from Garrett Gerloff and Leon Haslam saw both riders jump up to third and fourth during the final five minutes. Haslam’s team-mate Alvaro Bautista then pipped the British rider to fourth place courtesy of a lap that was a tenth quicker. 

WORLD SUPERBIKE MANDALIKA, INDONESIA – FREE PRACTICE RESULTS (2)

POSRIDERNATTEAMTIME
1Toprak RazgatliogluTURPATA Yamaha1:34.230s
2Jonathan ReaGBRKawasaki Racing Team+0.174s
3Garrett GerloffUSAGRT Yamaha+0.225s
4Alvaro BautistaSPATeam HRC+0.230s
5Scott ReddingGBRAruba.It Ducati+0.349s
6Leon HaslamGBRTeam HRC+0.371s
7Alex LowesGBRKawasaki Racing Team+0.528s
8Andrea LocatelliITAPATA Yamaha+0.647s
9Michael Van Der MarkNEDMotorrad BMW WorldSBK Team+0.708s
10Axel BassaniITAMotocorsa Ducati+0.724s
11Michael RinaldiITAAruba.It Ducati+0.727s
12Isaac VinalesSPAOrelac Racing Kawasaki+0.742s
13Tom SykesGBRMotorrad BMW WorldSBK Team+1.181s
14Kohta NozaneJPNGRT Yamaha+1.186s
15Chaz DaviesGBRGoEleven Ducati+1.206s
16Leandro MercadoARGMIE Honda Racing+1.361s
17Christophe PonssonFRAGil Yamaha+1.407s
18Tito RabatITAKawasaki Puccetti+1.620s
19Samuele CavalieriSPABarni Ducati+1.706s
20Oliver KonigCZEPedercini Kawasaki+4.692s

Free Practice One

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