2025 French WorldSBK: Friday Practice LIVE UPDATES

2025 French WorldSBK - FP2 Result

Crash for Andrea Iannone at turn 13. He's okay but a difficult day for the Italian - down in P15 in this FP2.

He's back on the bike and riding back to the pits.

Sam Lowes up to second now, 0.400s behind Bulega.

Bulega to the top now on a 1:35.428, that's under the pole position record for the Italian.

Petrucci up to third on a 1:36.103.

Bulega able to continue lapping in the low-1:36s. It's not the outright speed of Razgatlioglu but the pace is solid from the Italian.

Bulega has improved again to a 1:36.078. He's within a couple of tenths of Razgatlioglu now but the Turkish rider is still the only one in the 1:35s.

Van der Mark continues in the top-10. He's just moved up to eighth on a 36.633.

Most riders back in the pits now. Just over 20 minutes remaining of FP2.

Correction: 1:36.190 for Bulega.

Bulega now up to second with a 1:36.890.

5 Ducatis in the top-8 at the moment, but none in the top-3 - Razgatlioglu, Alex Lowes, and Locatelli in there at the moment with BMW, Bimota, and Yamaha respectively.

Razgatlioglu now into the 1:35s - 35.860 puts him 0.452s clear of Alex Lowes in second.

Crash for Vierge at the penultimate corner it looks like. He's back up and riding the short distance back to the pits.

Bulega there in fourth, by the way, on a 36.528, 0.453s off the pace of Razgatlioglu.

Razgatlioglu now down to a 1:36.075. He was 0.6s clear of Petrucci when he set that time, but Alex and Sam Lowes now both within 0.3s.

Gerloff also into the 1:36s with a 36.816, Locatelli and Rea as well each with 36.9s.

Then Razgatlioglu blows their doors off with a 1:36.409 - 0.293s lead at the top of the times for Razgatlioglu now.

Petrucci with the early benchmark in FP2 and a proper benchmark at that, straight into the 1:36s and a fastest lap of the weekend at a 1:36.702.

It was a dry track under cloudy skies this morning for FP1, and the same is more or less true this afternoon. The clouds have broken up a fair bit, though, so should be fine conditions throughout this FP2 session which is now only 5 minutes away.

Toprak Razgatlioglu was fastest in FP1 this morning at Magny-Cours.

He was the only rider in the 1:36s and is aiming to extend his victory tally at Magny-Cours beyond his current eight.

Nicolo Bulega was a few tenths adrift of Razgatlioglu this morning but within 0.3s.

Xavi Vierge put Honda in the top-four - the Fireblade has 0.5kg/h additional fuel flow this weekend thanks to concessions used by the manufacturer.

Tarran Mackenzie was able to feature in the top-10 for much of the session although he dropped to 13th by the end.

Jonathan Rea was also in the top-10 in the beginning of the session, but ended in 15th.

Sergio Garcia was down in 22nd as he fills in for Iker Lecuona. He missed the opening minutes of the session due to an electrical issue.

Welcome back to live coverage of today's WorldSBK practice.

FP2 will be coming up in just over 10 minutes at 15:00 local time.

2025 French WorldSBK - FP1 Result

Toprak Razgatlioglu tops FP1 in Magny-Cours.

Sam Lowes second from Bulega, Vierge, Petrucci and Locatelli in the top-six.

Gerloff, Alex Lowes, van der Mark, and Bautista round out the top-10.