2024 World Superbike Assen - Friday Free Practice Results

Another slow start to Free Practice 2 resulted in Tito Rabat setting the pace early on before Toprak Razgatlioglu went quickest.

Razgatlioglu continued to set a red hot pace as more riders began filtering out on circuit.

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A change at the top then took place when Andrea Locatelli went quickest by just over two tenths.

Michael Ruben Rinaldi was next to go fastest as he bettered Alex Lowes’s time by half a second.

More Ducati rider started to join the party at the front of the field, as Sam Lowes moved into second ahead of series leader Nicolo Bulega.

With 17 minutes to go a red flag was deployed due to ‘safety conditions’ as one of the air fences required repairing. Heavy rain then followed which put pay to any riders wanting to improve.

Toprak Razgatlioglu leads the way in FP1

With very cold and damp conditions, many riders elected to stay in pit lane for the start of Free Practice 1.

One rider who did not was Alex Lowes, who went on to set the first flying lap of the session. But when Lowes swiftly returned to pit lane, a brief lull in the action followed before Philipp Oettl took his Yamaha R1 to the track.

Two-time race winner at Catalunya, Toprak Razgatlioglu was next to venture out as he chose to set a flying lap.

Sam Lowes elected to do the same aboard his Panigale V4 R as the track action began ramping up.

Razgatlioglu wasted no time in going quickest as the 2021 world champion went top just two laps into his stint.

The BMW rider continued his impressive turn of pace as he set a time of 1:37.665s despite conditions still being damp.

With a track full of riders heading into the final third of FP1, changes to the order behind Razgatlioglu were fluid as Jonathan Rea moved up to second, while Alvaro Bautista climbed up to fifth.

Michael Van Der Mark then made it a BMW 1-2 as he slotted into second behind Razgatlioglu.

Moments after going fourth quickest, Nicolo Bulega ran into problems at turn one as he went off into the gravel before getting stuck.

The session ended with Razgatlioglu getting back top spot from Alex Lowes.