Superbike has returned to cross the ocean for the first time since the pandemic and this weekend takes to the track at the San Juan El Villicum Circuit, the scene of the penultimate round of this exciting world championship. The first session, which started late due to track conditions that were not optimal due to a sandstorm that hit the track yesterday and soiled the asphalt, ended in the sign of Toprak Razgatlioglu, great ruler of the Argentine morning.
The Yamaha rider dominates with a time of 1’38 ”524, referring to the end of this first session. The leader of the world championship immediately imposes his pace and does so by inflicting just over half a second on Scott Redding, who knows the track today. The Ducati rider, who arrives here mathematically still in the fight but with few championship chances, queues up and closes with the second time trial, 501 thousandths from the Turkish. He is also forced to chase Jonathan Rea, the last driver to enter the track given the imperfect conditions and author of 14 laps (exactly like Toprak). The reigning champion pays 544 thousandths from his direct rival in the standings, bowing to the overwhelming power of the Yamaha rider at the start of the weekend.
The group of the first three returns to dominate the scene and the virtual positions of the podium, while behind them we find Alex Lowes. The Briton, who is recovering from the right hand injury sustained in Barcelona, is back on track and stops in fourth position, two tenths behind his teammate. The Kawasaki rider is “the first of the others” and precedes a surprising Isaac Vinales, who on the Orelac team’s ZX-10RR grabs an excellent fifth time. The Spaniard represents the third Kawasaki in the top 6, demonstrating how effective this bike is on the Argentine track.
Vinales also remains ahead of Garrett Gerloff, second of the Yamaha riders and seventh in the time standings. The American of the GRT team is the first to go beyond the second behind Razgatlioglu, leader and brand mate. The second Ducati of this session is Michael Ruben Rinaldi’s number 21, seventh at the end of the Argentine morning. For the rider from Romagna this is the first outing in Argentina with the official team.
Celebrates the comeback with an eighth position Chaz Davies. The Welshman is back on track in San Juan after almost a month of absence due to a broken rib in Barcelona. The Go Eleven rider resumes his place, occupied by Loris Baz in these last two rounds, and immediately moves into the top ten in what is his penultimate round of his career. Close the top 10 Alvaro Bautista and Andrea Locatelli, ninth and tenth respectively. Leon Haslam is out of the top ten by just 31 thousandths, but both Honda riders show great signs of improvement during the session. On the other hand, BMW, who with Michael van der Mark is 13th and with Eugene Laverty, substitute for Tom Sykes, is 17th.
Superbike has returned to cross the ocean for the first time since the pandemic and this weekend takes to the track at the San Juan El Villicum Circuit, the scene of the penultimate round of this exciting world championship. The first session, which started late due to track conditions that were not optimal due to a sandstorm that hit the track yesterday and soiled the asphalt, ended in the sign of Toprak Razgatlioglu, great ruler of the Argentine morning.
The Yamaha rider dominates with a time of 1’38 ”524, referring to the end of this first session. The leader of the world championship immediately imposes his pace and does so by inflicting just over half a second on Scott Redding, who knows the track today. The Ducati rider, who arrives here mathematically still in the fight but with few championship chances, queues up and closes with the second time trial, 501 thousandths from the Turkish. He is also forced to chase Jonathan Rea, the last driver to enter the track given the imperfect conditions and author of 14 laps (exactly like Toprak). The reigning champion pays 544 thousandths from his direct rival in the standings, bowing to the overwhelming power of the Yamaha rider at the start of the weekend.
The group of the first three returns to dominate the scene and the virtual positions of the podium, while behind them we find Alex Lowes. The Briton, who is recovering from the right hand injury sustained in Barcelona, is back on track and stops in fourth position, two tenths behind his teammate. The Kawasaki rider is “the first of the others” and precedes a surprising Isaac Vinales, who on the Orelac team’s ZX-10RR grabs an excellent fifth time. The Spaniard represents the third Kawasaki in the top 6, demonstrating how effective this bike is on the Argentine track.
Vinales also remains ahead of Garrett Gerloff, second of the Yamaha riders and seventh in the time standings. The American of the GRT team is the first to go beyond the second behind Razgatlioglu, leader and brand mate. The second Ducati of this session is Michael Ruben Rinaldi’s number 21, seventh at the end of the Argentine morning. For the rider from Romagna this is the first outing in Argentina with the official team.
Celebrates the comeback with an eighth position Chaz Davies. The Welshman is back on track in San Juan after almost a month of absence due to a broken rib in Barcelona. The Go Eleven rider resumes his place, occupied by Loris Baz in these last two rounds, and immediately moves into the top ten in what is his penultimate round of his career. Close the top 10 Alvaro Bautista and Andrea Locatelli, ninth and tenth respectively. Leon Haslam is out of the top ten by just 31 thousandths, but both Honda riders show great signs of improvement during the session. On the other hand, BMW, who with Michael van der Mark is 13th and with Eugene Laverty, substitute for Tom Sykes, is 17th.
Superbike has returned to cross the ocean for the first time since the pandemic and this weekend takes to the track at the San Juan El Villicum Circuit, the scene of the penultimate round of this exciting world championship. The first session, which started late due to track conditions that were not optimal due to a sandstorm that hit the track yesterday and soiled the asphalt, ended in the sign of Toprak Razgatlioglu, great ruler of the Argentine morning.
The Yamaha rider dominates with a time of 1’38 ”524, referring to the end of this first session. The leader of the world championship immediately imposes his pace and does so by inflicting just over half a second on Scott Redding, who knows the track today. The Ducati rider, who arrives here mathematically still in the fight but with few championship chances, queues up and closes with the second time trial, 501 thousandths from the Turkish. He is also forced to chase Jonathan Rea, the last driver to enter the track given the imperfect conditions and author of 14 laps (exactly like Toprak). The reigning champion pays 544 thousandths from his direct rival in the standings, bowing to the overwhelming power of the Yamaha rider at the start of the weekend.
The group of the first three returns to dominate the scene and the virtual positions of the podium, while behind them we find Alex Lowes. The Briton, who is recovering from the right hand injury sustained in Barcelona, is back on track and stops in fourth position, two tenths behind his teammate. The Kawasaki rider is “the first of the others” and precedes a surprising Isaac Vinales, who on the Orelac team’s ZX-10RR grabs an excellent fifth time. The Spaniard represents the third Kawasaki in the top 6, demonstrating how effective this bike is on the Argentine track.
Vinales also remains ahead of Garrett Gerloff, second of the Yamaha riders and seventh in the time standings. The American of the GRT team is the first to go beyond the second behind Razgatlioglu, leader and brand mate. The second Ducati of this session is Michael Ruben Rinaldi’s number 21, seventh at the end of the Argentine morning. For the rider from Romagna this is the first outing in Argentina with the official team.
Celebrates the comeback with an eighth position Chaz Davies. The Welshman is back on track in San Juan after almost a month of absence due to a broken rib in Barcelona. The Go Eleven rider resumes his place, occupied by Loris Baz in these last two rounds, and immediately moves into the top ten in what is his penultimate round of his career. Close the top 10 Alvaro Bautista and Andrea Locatelli, ninth and tenth respectively. Leon Haslam is out of the top ten by just 31 thousandths, but both Honda riders show great signs of improvement during the session. On the other hand, BMW, who with Michael van der Mark is 13th and with Eugene Laverty, substitute for Tom Sykes, is 17th.
Superbike has returned to cross the ocean for the first time since the pandemic and this weekend takes to the track at the San Juan El Villicum Circuit, the scene of the penultimate round of this exciting world championship. The first session, which started late due to track conditions that were not optimal due to a sandstorm that hit the track yesterday and soiled the asphalt, ended in the sign of Toprak Razgatlioglu, great ruler of the Argentine morning.
The Yamaha rider dominates with a time of 1’38 ”524, referring to the end of this first session. The leader of the world championship immediately imposes his pace and does so by inflicting just over half a second on Scott Redding, who knows the track today. The Ducati rider, who arrives here mathematically still in the fight but with few championship chances, queues up and closes with the second time trial, 501 thousandths from the Turkish. He is also forced to chase Jonathan Rea, the last driver to enter the track given the imperfect conditions and author of 14 laps (exactly like Toprak). The reigning champion pays 544 thousandths from his direct rival in the standings, bowing to the overwhelming power of the Yamaha rider at the start of the weekend.
The group of the first three returns to dominate the scene and the virtual positions of the podium, while behind them we find Alex Lowes. The Briton, who is recovering from the right hand injury sustained in Barcelona, is back on track and stops in fourth position, two tenths behind his teammate. The Kawasaki rider is “the first of the others” and precedes a surprising Isaac Vinales, who on the Orelac team’s ZX-10RR grabs an excellent fifth time. The Spaniard represents the third Kawasaki in the top 6, demonstrating how effective this bike is on the Argentine track.
Vinales also remains ahead of Garrett Gerloff, second of the Yamaha riders and seventh in the time standings. The American of the GRT team is the first to go beyond the second behind Razgatlioglu, leader and brand mate. The second Ducati of this session is Michael Ruben Rinaldi’s number 21, seventh at the end of the Argentine morning. For the rider from Romagna this is the first outing in Argentina with the official team.
Celebrates the comeback with an eighth position Chaz Davies. The Welshman is back on track in San Juan after almost a month of absence due to a broken rib in Barcelona. The Go Eleven rider resumes his place, occupied by Loris Baz in these last two rounds, and immediately moves into the top ten in what is his penultimate round of his career. Close the top 10 Alvaro Bautista and Andrea Locatelli, ninth and tenth respectively. Leon Haslam is out of the top ten by just 31 thousandths, but both Honda riders show great signs of improvement during the session. On the other hand, BMW, who with Michael van der Mark is 13th and with Eugene Laverty, substitute for Tom Sykes, is 17th.