2025 Italian WorldSBK: Friday Practice As It Happened
Live coverage of the Friday practice sessions from the Italian WorldSBK round at Cremona Circuit.
The Italian WorldSBK marks the fourth stop on the 2025 World Superbike calendar, with the Cremona Circuit hosting its second WorldSBK round having made its debut in 2024.
Nicolo Bulega holds a 21-point lead over Toprak Razgatlioglu ahead of this weekend.
FP2 is set to begin at 15:00 local time. Nicolo Bulega was fastest in this morning's FP1 session.
Bassani down at the final corner. Just a low-side at the apex.
And there's the chequered flag.
Bulega fastest ahead of Razgatlioglu who both make late improvements, and Bassani rounds out the top-three.
Bulega still maintaining that mid-1:29 pace that is just a step above the rest.
Bautista still fourth in the session, by the way, which shows how much everyone has been focusing on used tyres this afternoon.
Bautista back out again but the bike still looks a bit skewed.
Gardner into the top-10 briefly but then pushed out by Montella. Both 0.5s off Bulega's benchmark.
Bautista's got his bike back to the pits. Hopefully they can get the bike straightened out now.
Another crash for Bautista. No damage to him or his bike but there's a decent amount of frustration for the Spaniard. Three falls today.
Razgatlioglu up to seventh now but still 0.5s off the pace.
Bautista is back out on track but that bike still doesn't look perfectly straight.
PB from Razgatlioglu there but only enough for eighth, 0.542s behind Bulega. Looks like he's struggling to get stopped at the end of the back straight.
Bassani to within 0.167s now of Bulega. Decent run this from the Bimota rider.
Bassani improves to a 1:29.716, within a-quarter-of-a-second of Bulega now.
Sam Lowes not managing the same pace as Bulega but he's consistent in the high-1:29s.
Really solid pace in the mid-1:29s for Bulega. Almost no drop-off - over eight laps, albeit.
Bautista riding the bike back to the pits. It's quite misaligned.
Some trouble getting the bike out of the gravel for Bautista. It was a normal enough low-side for the two-time champion.
Another crash for Bautista. Not what he needed after only getting two laps this morning.
That lap for Razgatlioglu is a PB but only puts him 11th, 0.919s behind Bulega.
Razgatlioglu still down in 21st at the minute, just starting another flying lap now.
Bulega improves to a 1:29.473. Bautista up to fourth, too. Bassani the only non-Ducati in the top-five now with Bulega fastest, Sam Lowes third, and Bautista and Petrucci rounding out the top-five.
Sam Lowes and Bassani both into the 1:29s now, Bimota's Bassani ahead of the Marc VDS Ducati rider.
Vierge to the top briefly, but then Bulega finds a 1:29.665 to go top by 0.371s.
Early pace here in FP2 set by Sam Lowes at a 1:30.040. Bulega's best from this morning was down at a 1:29.158.
We have a green light at the end of pit lane and FP2 is underway in Cremona.
