THEThe hot afternoon in Misano played a cruel joke on Toprak Razgatlioglu who forced braking at Misano2 around halfway through FP2 and crashed, damaging his BMW.
The Turk was no longer able to return and was unable to improve his best lap of the morning (1’33”448). The two official Ducati riders Nicolò Bulega (1’33”511) e Alvaro Bautista (133″913) instead managed to lower their lap times, dropping below the 1’34 mark, but nIt wasn’t enough to overtake the Turkish talent who then finished in first position the first day of testing for the fourth WorldSBK round in Misano.
Remy Gardner he had been fast in the tests carried out during the break between Assen and Misano, but no one thought that today he could finish in fourth position less than half a second from the top of the rankings.
Andrea Iannone’s performance was also good, finishing fifth 512 thousandths behind Toprak. Alex Lowes did not lower his time in the morning and finished sixthin front of a surprising Iker Lecuona capable of bringing his Honda to seventh position, ahead of the second Kawasaki of a constant Axel Bassani.
Sam Lowes and Dominique Aegerter close the top ten today, from which he remains excluded Michael Ruben Rinaldiauthor of an improvement of more than half a second compared to FP1.
Behind the Team Motocorsa rider we find a disappointed man Michael Van der Marksecond of the BMWs, but even more disappointed than the Dutchman are undoubtedly the two official Yamahas Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea, thirteenth and fourteenth respectively in the comparison of today’s two sessions.
Danilo Petrucci is fifteenthbut the fact that the Italian is competing in this round already represents a victory, after his serious accident two months ago. Michele Pirro finishes in sixteenth placebefore Xavi Viergeto Tito Rabat and the couple Scott Redding and Garrett Gerloff incomprehensibly only nineteenth and twentieth.
