10:29
Sam Lowes has got back out on track but won't have enough time to get round to start a flying lap. He's 10th at the moment.
Sam Lowes, 2026 Emilia-Romagna WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2026 Misano WorldSBK LIVE: Updates from Superpole as Bulega takes home pole
Live coverage of the Superpole session at the 2026 Misano WorldSBK round at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli.
Live updates from the Superpole session at the 2026 Misano WorldSBK round. Superpole is due to start at 11:15 local time, with Race 1 coming up this afternoon at 14:00.
Key Moments
- Bulega takes eighth consecutive pole position
- Alex Lowes gets first front row of 2026
- Bulega immediately into 1m31s
- Sam Lowes, Gerloff crash separately
- Superpole begins at Misano
Nicolo Bulega comes into Superpole having set the fastest time in both Friday practices. The Italian has won every race this season and taken every pole position. A fastest time in Superpole today would bring him within one of the record set by Jonathan Rea at the start of the 2021 season of taking the first eight pole positions in a season.
Iker Lecuona was closest to Bulega yesterday, continuing the trend of the season established at round two in Portugal. The Spaniard did have a crash in FP2 yesterday, and explained that he had struggled to get himself back into a WorldSBK riding style in FP1 after riding in MotoGP last weekend.
Yari Montella and Sam Lowes were the only riders to join the factory Ducatis in the 1m32s in FP2 yesterday, and only the Bimotas of Axel Bassani and Alex Lowes featured in the top-nine along with seven Ducati riders.
It was also Sam Lowes who was fastest in FP3 this morning as he and Montella both lapped faster than Bulega - all three lapped in the 1m31s.
Both Bimota riders were confirmed to have renewed with the team for 2027 earlier this morning, following the confirmation of Garrett Gerloff's continuation at Kawasaki yesterday.
13 Jun 2026
10:38
Results
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Nicolo Bulega, 2026 Emilia-Romagna WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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10:32
Bulega takes Misano pole
It's pole position once again for Nicolo Bulega, that's eight in a row and seven in succession from the start of 2026.
Lecuona second, but Alex Lowes has denied Ducati a front row lockout for the first time in 2026, P3 for the Bimota rider.
Montella, Baldassarri, Surra on the second row, then Bassani, Locatelli, and Bridewell on the third row.
Sam Lowes completes the top-10, alongside Oliveira and Mackenzie on row four.
10:29
Montella improves, P3 on a 1m32.0s. Slower than what he did in FP3.
Baldassarri moves up to fourth ahead of Surra as well.
10:28
Bridewell had just moved up to ninth but has crashed at turn two. That'll cost a few riders laps with the yellows.
10:27
Bulega improves at the top, down to a 1m31.343s now. New lap record from the Italian. Lecuona improves behind him but is 0.2s adrift.
10:24
Lowes has got back to the Marc VDS box. Seems fairly well fuming with himself, but physically okay.
10:23
Top 10 order
Top 10 ahead of second runs:
- Bulega
- Lecuona
- Montella
- Baldassarri
- Bassani
- A. Lowes
- Surra
- S. Lowes
- Oliveira
- Vierge
10:22
Turn 13, not 14, for Lowes. Held his wrist after the crash, but he seems okay.
10:21
Crash for Sam Lowes, also at turn 14 it looks like, same place as Gerloff.
10:20
Fastest time of the weekend immediately from Bulega, 1m31.784s. He's ahead of Lecuona and Montella early on.
10:19
Crash for Gerloff at turn 14. He's going to be on the back row unless there's a red flag, realistically. Looks like he's just locked the front in braking, out on the kerb between turns 13 and 14.
10:15
Superpole start
Pit lane is open at Misano and we are underway for Superpole.
10:09
Conditions
25C air temperature ahead of Superpole is higher than at any point we had yesterday, 44C track temperature as well so a toasty start to the day at Misano.
10:00
Mackenzie, Vickers crash
Both practices yesterday were fairly uneventful, bar a small crash for Iker Lecuona.
FP3 was more dramatic, however, mostly thanks to this crash between Tarran Mackenzie and Ryan Vickers that brought out the red flags.
Vickers was taken to the medical centre but was declared fit with a left hand contusion.
09:55
Gerloff renews
The news of Bassani's and Lowes' respective renewals at Bimota came after Garrett Gerloff's stay at Kawasaki will extend into a third year in 2027.
Full story here.
Garrett Gerloff, Kawasaki, WorldSBK 2026.
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09:45
Lowes, Bassani renew
This morning, Bimota has confirmed that it has re-signed Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani for the 2027 season as the project enters its this year.
Full story here.
Axel Bassani leads Alex Lowes, 2026 Czech WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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09:39
FP3 result
2026 emilia-romagna worldsbk - fp3 result
Sam Lowes, 2026 Emilia-Romagna WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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09:32
Welcome to live coverage of today's WorldSBK action from Misano, where Superpole is due to start in around 45 minutes at 11:15 local time.