The Aragon WorldSBK is the 10th stop on the 2025 calendar, and with only three rounds remaining the pressure is beginning to build on the title contenders.
Toprak Razgatlioglu enters this weekend's round with a 39-point championship lead over Nicolo Bulega and with a 12-race win streak. Bulega, though, has a chance to strike back at MotorLand, a circuit at which Razgatlioglu has never won.
Last year's wins were split between Andrea Iannone (Race 1) and Alvaro Bautista (Superpole Race and Race 2), but neither have won yet in 2025.
Garrett Gerloff was also on the podium last year in Aragon, in Race 1 - still his most recent top-three finish.
Alex Lowes put the Bimota on the podium three times last time out in France, but the KB998 is expected to struggle this weekend, due to the Aragon layout's harshness on tyres as well as its long back straight.
The battle for third in the championship continues this weekend, too, with fifth-placed Alvaro Bautista 30 points behind third-placed Danilo Petrucci, with Andrea Locatelli between them, six points ahead of Bautista.
FP1 was topped by Toprak Razgatlioglu. FP2 is coming up this afternoon at 15:00 local time.
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Nicolo Bulega says he wants to find improvements in two areas on Saturday, including on electronics, despite ending FP2 fastest.
The Italian also expressed his wariness of Toprak Razgatlioglu, despite seeming to have comparable pace to the championship leader on Friday.
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It's Nicolo Bulega who tops FP2 in Aragon, 0.012s separate him from Razgatlioglu.
Sam Lowes rounds out the top-three ahead of Locatelli, Bautista, and van der Mark in the top-six.
Petrucci, Vierge, Iannone, and Bassani round out the top-10.
There's been a crash for Alex Lowes with a couple of minutes on the clock at turn eight. Looks like the bike has flipped over in the gravel and at least made it to the barrier.
Interesting couple of laps there with Razgatlioglu tailing Bautista, the former clearly quicker.
Razgatlioglu's made his move in front now with five minutes to go, and Bautista bailed out immediately.
Bautista improves again - P5 with a 1:49.184.
Sam Lowes then gets himself into the 1:48s on a 48.997.
12-lap run from Razgatlioglu to start the session and five 1:48s in that.
Over 20 minutes into his first run now and Razgatlioglu drops in another 1:48, this time a 48.915. No improvement, then, but a lap faster than the best effort of everyone bar Bulega on the final lap of that run.
Bautista improves to a 1:49.381 but stays P6 with that, 0.633s behind Razgatlioglu.
Improvement from Alex Lowes - 1:49.347 to put him fifth, just behind his brother and ahead of Bautista.
PB for Bautista now puts him fifth: 1:49.395.
And there's an improvement from Razgatlioglu; back to the top on a 1:48.840, 0.072s ahead of Bulega.
Petrucci lapping behind Razgatlioglu for a few tours in a row now. Both lapping in the low-1:49 bracket.
1:49.137 puts Sam Lowes third with his latest lap, and Bulega's next lap puts him fastest on a 48.912.
Bulega up to second with his latest lap, 0.005s behind Razgatlioglu with a 1:48.934.
Razgatlioglu now fastest and immediately sub-1:49 on a 1:48.929.
Petrucci with the early benchmark at a 1:49.536, that beats his FP1 time.
Bassani improves on his FP1 time as well with a 49.548.
Pit lane is open now in Aragon and we are underway for 45 minutes of FP2. Continued sunny conditions this afternoon.
Welcome back to live coverage of today's WorldSBK practice from Aragon. FP2 is coming up in five minutes at 15:00 local time.
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It's Toprak Razgatlioglu who ends FP1 fastest in Aragon.
Nicolo Bulega finishes second ahead of Alvaro Bautista in third.
Vierge, Sam Lowes, and Iannone complete the top-six, while van der Mark, Gerloff, Alex Lowes, and Rea round out the top-10.
A late crash for van der Mark at the final corner after the flag was out. He's slid a long way, but no replays showing clearly what happened.
Late improvement from Gerloff, he's up to seventh on the Kawasaki which - predictably - lost a lot in the final split.
Improvement for Bautista - he's up to third on a 1:49.3.
Razgatlioglu now heading out for his second run. 5 minutes on the clock.
