After battling throughout day-one for top spot, Garrett Gerloff and Bautista renewed their fight🌟 to see who would finish the Misano WorldSBK test fastest, but not before impressive rookie Oettl topped the opening session. 

Fifth fastest&nbs💯p;on day-one, Oettl immediately improved his lap time by over seven🍃 tenths as he set a 1:34.214s. 

Gerloff was a further tenth🌄 of a second back in second, while Scott Redding enjoyed a much better start to day-two - the new BMW rider was only tenth out of 12 riders come the end of Wednesday’s running. 

Oettl, who will be competing on a revised Paniglae V4-R in 2022, spent a significant portion of the day working on GoEleven Ducati’s new fo�💛�rk, brake calliper and exhaust. 

The last WorldSBK rider to hit the Misano track was day-one pa♒cesetter Bautis🔥ta. However, it didn’t take the Spaniard long to find his rhythm as he went quickest with a first sub 1m 34s lap of the day just after lunch. 

Bautista then went even quicker to post a time of 1:33.722s, which was the best lap time of the test until Gerloff bꦬettered the Ducati rider with a 1:33.686s.

The top three of Gerloff, Bautista and🌜 Oettl remained intact until the final hour when Lucas Mah꧅ias went from fifth to third. 

Moments before the Puccetti Kawasaki rider set a time of 1:34.058s, Bautista went back to the top of the leaderboard, a position he retained 🍸until the close of play. 

Sixth fastest was Mic🅰hael Rina꧋ldi as the Italian finished close to eight tenths behind team-mate Bautista. 

After missing a private Aruba.it Ducati-organised test in Jeꦐrez last December due to injury, Rinaldi got his first taste of the team’s new swingarm that Bautista tried during the Spanish outing.&nb𝄹sp;

After a solid morning which saw Bonovo Action BMW rider Eugene Laverty climb as high as P3 on the timingsheets, the Irish rider eventually dropped to P7༒ - finishing less than half a tenth behind factory rider Redding. 

A similar margin split Laverty and team-mate Loris Baz as the former Kawasak🔯i and Yamaha rider was +0.036s back. 

Speaking𒁃 after day-one, Redding highlighted the change from a V4 to an inline-four engine as the biggest hurdle to overcome this season, while saying under-revving was a problem until this week’s Misano test.

Redding told WorldSBK.com: "The first impression of the BMW team was great. I’m a happy rider so far. My adaptation to the BMW was a bit different to what I ဣexpect❀ed. 

"I’m a rider that can ride anything anywhere, ﷺanytime. But it was a little bit more diffi✤cult I must say. 

"I’ve spent so many years on a V4 that the changeover was difficult; not actually riding the bike, but me feeling comfortable with thꦓe stꦯyle of the engine revving, the way I need to take corners. 

"Adapting to the inline-four was the most difficult thing for me because I felt like 💝I was going to blow up the engine [laughs]. 

"The guys wer🌊e like ‘you need t🌠o rev it and I was like I am, I am’. 

"That was difficult 💯for me but since I’ve come back I’m revving it like it needs to be. The riding and c🎃ornering is not so different."