Jonathan Rea has tak🤡en a record-breaking eighth consecutive pole position at WorldSBK Magny-Cours. 

Rea initially went fastest and looked set to keep that ꦯposition based on his impressive mid 1m 36s time, however, Toprak Razgatlioglu produced a stunning final sector to go top after trailing by three tenths earlier in the lap. 

The two championship leader🐽s were t🐽hen bettered by Superpole specialist Tom Sykes who went quicker by a tenth of a second.

Alex Lowes was first out of the pits for the second🔯 and final runs and went onto provisional pole with what was a new lap record at the time.

But, Razgatlioglu r🔯egained provisional pole on his penultimate lap. Sykes came close to matching the Turkish rider’s time, but was unable to do so in the final sec🌃tor.

Hꦿowever, 2021 pole hound Jonathan Rea did have an answer for the Yamaha man on his final lap.&𓂃nbsp;

Rea managed to not only keep the advantage he had through the first three sectors, but instead gain time on Razgatlioglu in the final sector - an area of the track where Razgatlioglu had consistently been qui🅰cker th𝔍an the Kawasaki rider so far this weekend.

Home fa🦹vourite Lucas Mahias suffered a fast crash at turn one during the closing stages, but managed to retain 💮a top ten starting spot.