Bulega does the double with standard Pirelli tyres in Magny-Cours

WorldSBK · The Superpole Race was held on a dry track with asphalt temperatures around 25°C. Almost all the riders went with the standard SC1 for the front, whereas Scott Redding on BMW, Michael Ruben Rinaldi on Ducati, and the two Honda riders, Tarran Mackenzie and Ivo Lopes, opted instead for the SC1 development solution in D0715 specification. At the rear, the grid was also almost unanimous in choosing the SCQ. Only the two Kawasaki riders, Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, selected the SCX development tyre in D0820 specification and Tito Rabat (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) preferred the standard SCX.  · The SC1 front – SCX rear combination, both standard tyres, was the choice for the top three Race 2 finishers: Nicolò Bulega (Aruba it Racing – Ducati), Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team – Ducati), and Garrett Gerloff (Bonovo Action BMW), also shared by most of the other riders on the grid. Among the other 17, six went with the new SCX development tyre in D0820 specification for the rear, and four chose the SC1 development tyre in D0715 specification for the front. ⁠ WorldSSP · Tyre choice for Race 1 was up in the air until the last minute. The three riders who finished on the podium gambled on slicks and, for the front, they relied on the standard SC1. Race winner Niki Tuuli (EAB Racing Team – Ducati) combined it with the SCX at the rear, whereas the second and third-place finishers, respectively Federico Caricasulo (Motozoo ME AIR Racing – MV Agusta) and Glenn van Straalen (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing), opted for the SC0. · Race 2 started in dry conditions with asphalt temperatures around 35°C. All the riders chose the SC1 for the front, whereas for the rear, about two thirds preferred the SCX, with the others opting for the SC0. All of the options available for WorldSSP are standard solutions. With the same number of laps as 2023, Race 2 this year was one and a half seconds faster, with an average improvement per lap of almost one tenth.· Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) did a time of 1:40,027 on the seventh lap, which breaks the previous race lap record by almost half a second. Nevertheless, it was not better than the time of 1:39,375 which Adrian Huertas (Aruba it Racing WorldSSP Team – Ducati) did on Friday in qualifying which, at the end of the weekend, stands as the new all-time lap record for the circuit.