Bulega on top as Ducati dominates Friday WorldSBK practice at Phillip Island
Nicolo Bulega fastest in both Friday practice sessions for the 2025 Austr🐎a꧟lian World Superbike round.
Fastest throughout the Phillip Island test, Nicolo Bulega extended his Australian dominance to a clean sweep of Friday practice for the season-opening 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike round.
The Italian was the first of six Ducatis in the top seven, broken only by Toprak Razgatlioglu, who j⛎umped up to third while chasing Bulega.
However, BMW’s reigning world champ🐟ion, who fell at Turn 4 this morning, soo✨n lost touch with the Aruba rider.
As in the morning, Andrea Iannone proved Bulega’s closest challenger. But the Go Eleven rider finished a substantial 0.406s behind a🍸s Bulega topped all four Sectors of the Phillip Island lap.
Danilo Petrucci (Barni), Alvaro Bautista (Aruba), Sam Lowes (Marc VDS) and Yari Montella (Bar🥀ni) filled fourth to seventh places on the timesheets🧸, followed by the Bimota of Alex Lowes.
Bonovo's🏅 Scott Redding overcame this m𝔍orning’s technical issues to make it seven Ducatis in the top ten, ahead of Razgatlioglu’s team-mate Michael van der Mark.
Andrea Locatelli was the l💮eading Yamaha in eleventh place, with Xavi Vierge t♒he top Honda in 15th.
Final practice, Superpole and Race 1 take place on Saturday, when temperatures are🅠 predicted to rise into the 30s.
Both main races will again feature a mandatory pit stop, due to tyre concerns, with riders and teꦇams practicing wheel changes at the end of the afternoon session.
Peter has b🤪een in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
