2025 Spanish WorldSBK: Friday Practice As It Happened

Just a quick update on Rinaldi. He's been declared fit after his trip to the medical centre during FP2 after his turn 11 crash.

Rea moves up from 20th to ninth with his penultimate lap of the session. He's the fourth of four consecutive riders sitting on a 1:39.5, Alex Lowes the fastest of those in sixth.

Despite Bulega's mechanical problem he's done the same amount of laps as Razgatlioglu - 10. Seems like BMW are really searching around for some technical solutions on the M1000 RR this afternoon.

Razgatlioglu out now for the final five minutes as Bulega goes faster again on a 1:38.668.

Bulega right back on the pace now, 1:38.698 to extend his lead at the top on his most recent lap. He's 0.168s clear of Lowes in second now.

Vickers and Locatelli also put in improvements: Vickers up to fifth and Locatelli to seventh, so that's pushed van der Mark back to eighth.

Strong lap from van der Mark from fairly out of the blue, up to P6 now on the second BMW.

Water leak reported as the problem for Bulega by the world feed broadcast. That would explain the fairly sharp fix on that issue.

Bulega had pitted again after his initial return to the track but its back out there now .

A lot of riders in the pits at the moment. Bulega still fastest by just over a tenth from Sam Lowes and Iannone in the top-three.

Razgatlioglu fourth, then Alex Lowes, Bassani, Gardner, Bautista, Vierge, and Lecuona in the top-10.

Rinaldi has been taken to the medical centre after his turn 11 crash.

Razgatlioglu's improved to P4, 1:39.139, 0.396s behind Bulega who is now back out on-track.

Crash for Andrea Iannone in turn 11. He's been able to walk away a bit easier than Rinaldi earlier on in that corner.

Razgatlioglu looked on to improve himself into the top-three but he had to back off through the yellow flags for that Iannone crash.

It had been very strong pace from Bulega before that issue, much stronger than what everyone else was doing, which has generally been low-to-mid-1:39s for everyone else - everyone including Razgatlioglu, although he's only done four laps in the opening 15 minutes of the session.

Bulega has just got the bike back to the paddock and is wheeling it back into the pit lane. Hard to tell if he will get back out before the end of the session.

Seems like a mechanical issue for Bulega. He had been lapping in the mid-to-high 1:38s in his first run, but does look like some smoke coming from his bike that Iannone made him aware of on-track. 

He's cruising back to the pits but has been given the black-and-orange flag which means he needs to stop on track immediately. Looks like he's pulled off at turn 12 (the flag was shown when he was around turns nine and 10) so he should be okay to avoid penalties but might be one to keep an eye on later.

Crash for Michael Ruben Rinaldi at turn 11. Looks like he's hurt to some extent but he's able to walk away with some assistance.

Bulega on top early on here, 1:38.756 is a couple of tenths shy of what he managed this morning. Sam Lowes also in the 38s early on, 0.110 behind Bulega for now.

Somebody off at turn six, it's Ryan Vickers. Looks like he's just run straight on rather than crashed. He's back on-track now and should be able to continue the session from there.

It was a relatively uneventful FP1 session this morning. Only two crashes, one for Nicholas Spinelli, who is filling in for Danilo Petrucci this weekend; and another for Lukas Tulovic who is wildcarding.

Nicolo Bulega was fastest overall from Toprak Razgatlioglu. Only 0.088s separated the two title contenders.

Xavi Vierge showed good speed on the Honda in third place, while Alex Lowes put Bimota at the bottom end of the top-six.

Jonathan Rea was the best Yamaha in eighth.

Alvaro Bautista was only ninth-fastest, but this still put him ahead of Andrea Locatelli who is his only competitor in the battle for third in the riders' standings.

Welcome back to live coverage of today's WorldSBK action from Jerez, where FP2 will be coming up in around 15 minutes at 15:00 local time.

Rea up into the top-10 late on, he's the top Yamaha now, one place behind Yari Montella who could really do with some results this weekend after a tough spell in the last few rounds.

Sam Lowes up to fifth on his latest lap, just one spot ahead of his brother, Alex. They're head-to-head this weekend for sixth in the standings - Alex is nine points ahead after Sam missed the Estoril races.