2025 Estoril WorldSBK: Friday Practice LIVE UPDATES

As this morning, early benchmark set by Rea, but Razgatlioglu to the top now on a 1:36.629.

Fastest of all this morning was Toprak Razgatlioglu. He led Nicolo Bulega by over 0.2s, and carries a 36-point lead into this weekend's penultimate round.

Razgatlioglu won here twice last year, but was beaten by Bulega in the Superpole Race. FP2 should give us a decent idea of where their relative pace stacks up, but Razgatlioglu seemed to have a couple of tenths in hand over the Italian this morning.

Lecuona is also injured this weekend and was reviewed after FP1. No update has been given on his condition so we assume he is going to ride in FP2. He was 11th-fastest in FP1 this morning.

In case you missed it, there's no Danilo Petrucci this afternoon. The Italian was declared unfit after FP1 and was ruled out of the remainder of the weekend.

He entered Estoril with a hand injury sustained in training.

Razgatlioglu misses out on an improvement on his penultimate lap of the session by a tenth, mostly thanks to a bit of a wheelie out of the last corner.

Rea now up to seventh ahead of Petrucci, it's been a decent morning for the Yamaha man.

Late improvements from Vierge to P6, and Petrucci up to 7th with three minutes left on the clock.

Razgatlioglu back out now for his second run, no improvement yet but his first lap is faster than P2 Bulega's best at a 1:36.114.

Alex Lowes up to third, 1:36.620, a few moments later Bulega improves to a 1:36.280 to move within 0.226s of Razgatlioglu. 

Consistent pace in those mid-1:36s at the minute for the Italian.

Bulega down to a 1:36.334, 0.280s behind Razgatlioglu now, the BMW rider still in the pits after his first run.

Encouraging session so far for both Lecuona and Petrucci, who will be reviewed after FP1.

Lecuona still completing laps and in 11th at the moment. Petrucci currently in the pits but up in P9, having just been displaced for eighth by Locatelli.

At MIE, by the way, it's Ivo Lopes who has stepped in this weekend.

A couple of wildcards this weekend. Bobby Fong is over from the MotoAmerica championship, where he missed out on the title to Cameron Beaubier at New Jersey back at the end of September.

We also have Tetsuta Nagashima wildcarding for Honda.

The MIE team is also without Zaqhwan Zaidi who is racing the Asia Road Racing Championship instead this weekend in Sepang.  There, he's only 14 points behind championship leader Keito Abe with two rounds to go including this weekend.

WorldSBK world feed broadcast reporting it was a problem with his leathers that cost Sam Lowes some time at the start of the session.

Solid start for Bimota as well. Obviously, we've mentioned Lowes, who's still there in fourth, but Bassani is also up there in P5 at the moment. Both 0.6s behind Razgatlioglu.

Decent start for Iannone, just pops in a personal best there to go third-fastest, having been fifth before that. 1:36.631 now for the Go Eleven rider.

Personal best on his most recent lap for Bulega, but a 1:36.508 means he's still over 0.4s behind Razgatlioglu's benchmark.

Sam Lowes into the top-10 in P9, so a decent start for him if a little delayed.

Razgatlioglu has improved further at the top to a 1:36.054.

Alex Lowes had been the first rider to lap in the 1:36s, but Razgatlioglu now to the top on a 1:36.140 which puts him 0.446s clear of Bulega.

Sam Lowes has just put his first lap in, a bit behind the schedule of the others.

Mackenzie has got his bike back to the pits. His crash saw him do down in the gravel at turn one after running on in braking.