2025 French WorldSBK: Race 2 LIVE UPDATES

Bulega sticking with Razgatlioglu for now. BMW rider is with the harder front tyre as yesterday and this morning, so taking laps to get that up to temperature.

Razgatlioglu leads from Bylega on the opening lap, only a couple of tenths in it.

Some positions swapping for third on the opening lap between Alex Lowes and Petrucci. Still Lowes' for now.

Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of Race 2 at the French WorldSBK. 21 laps of Magny-Cours coming up to conclude the weekend.

Alex Lowes has finished third in both races so far this weekend, and with Sam Lowes starting 10th he is perhaps the favourite to clinch the final podium spot again this afternoon.

The only other time he has finished on the podium in all three races on a weekend was at Thailand in 2019, also with three thirds.

Danilo Petrucci is a row better on the grid this time, though, so could present a bigger challenge from fourth on the grid. Yesterday, the Italian complained of a bad feeling with the front tyre.

Bulega himself has finished second in both races so far this weekend and therefore starts second this afternoon.

It's hard to see him having the pace to go with Razgatlioglu in Race 2, but if he can make the holeshot as he did in the Superpole Race he might at least be able to put some pressure on in the opening laps.

A winner in each of the last 11 races , Toprak Razgatlioglu is clearly the favourite to take victory in Race 2.

As of this morning, he is also a 10-time winner at Magny-Cours and so the circuit's most successful rider.

He enters this race with a 34-point lead over Nicolo Bulega.

Unusually warm conditions for Magny-Cours this afternoon: 29C air temperature, 39C track temperature.

Welcome back to live coverage of today's WorldSBK action from Mangy-Cours. Race 2 is coming up in just under 20 minutes at the slightly later-than-usual time of 15:30 local time to avoid clashing with the start of either MotoGP or F1.

The riders are heading out of the pits on their sighting lap now.

2025 French WorldSBK - Superpole Race Result

It's 11 in a row for Razgatlioglu, victory in the Magny-Cours Superpole Race.

History for the Turk, he's the first rider to win 10 races at three different tracks in WorldSBK.

Bulega takes second, Lowes hangs on to third - he was one of the riders on the SCQ tyre and it looks like it just started to die in the closing laps.

Petrucci fourth ahead of van der Mark in the top-five, then Iannone sixth from Bassani, Rea and Vierge who takes the last point in ninth. Aegerter completes the top-10.

Locatelli got up to 12th, but that won't do much for him, and Gerloff similarly so in 14th.

Looks like a last lap crash for Montella.

The incident between Iannone, Rea, and Bautista is under investigation.

Bautista has got himself back to the pits. 

Ryan Vickers has also retired.

Two laps to go and it looks like everything at the front is settled. Razgatlioglu 2.5s clear of Bulega, who has 1.5s over Alex Lowes who has just been given a track limits warning.

Petrucci 3s behind the podium battle but locked in a fight with van der Mark for fourth.

Bautista an unfortunate victim of Rea running into the back of Iannone and sitting up, Bautista had no way to avoid him.

Now Sam Lowes has crashed out. Looks fairly annoyed with himself and he'll start row four for Race 2 now.

Bautista has also gone down at turn five.

Mistake from Sam Lowes it seems, he's dropped back to fourth behind Bulega and Alex Lowes who are now second and third respectively.

Razgatlioglu now 2s clear.

Bulega up to third past Alex Lowes at turn five on lap six.

Half distance now reached in the Superpole Race and Bulega still yet to find a way through on Alex Lowes.

Razgatlioglu back out to 1s over Sam Lowes.

6 to go in this one and Lowes a couple of tenths faster than Razgatlioglu that time.  0.7s the gap. Bulega still 4th behind Alex Lowes.

Mistake from Bulega at the end of lap three and he drops back to fourth behind the two Loweses. 1.1s gap for Razgatlioglu now who has a new fastest lap.

Razgatlioglu continues to lead on lap two, he has 0.5s over Bulega, Sam Lowes still in touch has well and within a second of the lead.

Montella served his long lap penalty on that lap and rejoined back in 19th.

Razgatlioglu leads the opening lap from Bulega, Sam Lowes, Alex Lowes, and van der Mark in the top-five.

Razgatlioglu takes the lead at turn five. He came from so far back to pass Bulega there and made it look easy.