Having topped the Dorna-supported test at the Spanish track earlier this week, Rea was also quickest across the two practice sessions on Friday on the revised Kawasaki ZX-10RR as he began his quest for a seventh WSBK title.
The Ulsterman was quick out of the blocks in FP1, going straight to the top with a 1m49.301s. Alex Lowes briefly made it a 1-2 for Kawasaki at the head of the timesheets, before reigning champion Razgatlioglu and then Ducati’s Michael Ruben Rinaldi pushed him down to fourth at the end of the session.
Rea’s time, however, wasn’t to be beaten even after the second practice session in the afternoon, with his nearest challenger Bautista – returning to Ducati after two seasons at Honda – ending up more than three tenths adrift with his time of 1m49.606s set in FP2.
Razgatlioglu failed to improve on his previous time in the afternoon, which dropped the reigning champion in third on the factory Yamaha and just 0.041s ahead of the GRT-run R1 of Garrett Gerloff.
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