Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) will head into FP3 at Misano tomorrow as the fastest rider on combined times after today’s two 45 minute Free Practice sessions after responding to the improving Davide Giugliano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) who took the challenge to his compatriot before being displaced, finishing 2^nd.

With the top 12 riders covered by less than a second, the battle to make it into the top ten automatic Superpole 2 qualifying session to decide the grid was intense as minute by minute the positions of the leading riders changed.

At the end of an enthralling session, Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) and Leon Haslam (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) completed the top 4 making it 4 Italian bikes in the top 4.

Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) and team mate Tom Sykes were 5^th and 6^th respectively ahead of Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) and Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing) who were 7^th and 8^th, the pair looking very fast in sector one of the newly resurfaced Misano World Circuit.

Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) was 9^th ahead of Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing).

Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda WSBK Team), Markus Reiterberger (VanZon Rehema BMW), Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia), David Salom (Team Pedercini) and Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) were 11^th to 15^th respectively.

This afternoon’s session was red flagged owing to a Christophe Ponsson crash, the Pedercini Kawasaki will start tomorrow’s FP3 in 21^st overall.

To read the FP1 report please click here: http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2015/Biaggi+in+charge+as+WorldSBK+round+8+begins