2025 Italian WorldSBK: Friday Practice Results

Nicolo Bulega completed a sweep of Friday's practice sessions at the 2025 Italian WorldSBK, topping FP2 ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu.

Razgatlioglu spent most of FP2 in the back end of the top-10 but was able to improve at the very end but he was still 0.215 seconds behind the Italian.

Axel Bassani was third-fastest despite a late crash, and a late improvement from Andrea Locatelli put him fourth.

Alvaro Bautista crashed twice in FP2 but was fifth-faastest, ahead of Iker Lecuona, Sam Lowes, Alex Lowes, Andrea Iannone and Danilo Petrucci who rounded out the top-10.

The returning Jonathan Rea ended his first day back in WorldSBK action 21st-fastest.

Full World Superbike FP2 results from Cremona are below. 

FP1

Nicolo Bulega was fastest in FP1 at the 2025 Italian WorldSBK, finishing 0.379 seconds clear of Danilo Petrucci.

Toprak Razgatlioglu was third-fastest but 0.395 seconds behind his title rival: Bulega.

Iker Lecuona and Sam Lowes rounded out the top-five, with Alex Lowes in sixth on the Bimota.

Xavi Vierge, Andrea Locatelli, Remy Gardner, and Axel Bassani rounded out the top-10.

There were multiple crashes in the session, including for Petrucci, Michael van der Mark, Andrea Iannone, and Ryan Vickers. 

The most significant was for Alvaro Bautista, who crashed on his second flying lap at turn seven and was unable to get out in time to do another flying lap, emerging only with 30 seconds left on the clock to do an installation lap to check the bike was okay before heading out in FP2 later on.

Jonathan Rea returned to action in FP1, finishing 17th.

Full results from World Superbike FP1 at Cremona are below.

• Cremona Circuit WorldSBK all-time lap record: 1:27.953 (Nicolo Bulega, 2024)
• Cremona Circuit WorldSBK race lap record: 1:28.289 (Danilo Petrucci, 2024 Superpole Race)