Heavy rain ahead of Friday’s running and construction work around the circuit situated on Indonesia’s Lombok Island left the track absolutely filthy.
The session was stopped just over an hour in because of track conditions, with a lengthy clean-up operation taking place for around 90 minutes.
A delegation of riders also held a meeting with Race Direction and FIM safety officer Franco Uncini to discuss the circuit, but lap times eventually improved as the day wore on – though an extra 45 minutes was added to the clock to make up for the stoppage.
Suzuki’s Alex Rins was the first to complete a lap at Mandalilka this morning on wet tyres, with Pramac’s Johann Zarco fastest ahead of the stoppage with a 1m44.830s.
As the track cleared up, riders were able to switch from wets to slicks and lap times improved.
However, only Honda’s Espargaro on the radically revised RC213V was able to get underneath the existing World Superbike lap record of 1m32.882s with his 1m32.466s set…
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