The penultimate day of World Supersport testing ahead of the season opener ended earlier today with Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) coming out on top after two 110 minute sessions.

In the opening session of the day it was former champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) who emerged on top 0.699s ahead of 2014 Phillip Island race winner and the 2014 vice champion Jules Cluzel (MV Agusta Reparto Corse), the pair several tenths ahead of the rest of the pack.

The later afternoon session saw the morning head wind on the Gardner Straight subside resulting in brace of faster times and with a lap time within a second of circuit lap record it was Sofuoglu who goes into tomorrow’s final test session in top spot.

Commenting on his pace during the day the Turkish rider was clearly buoyed by the his team’s ability to ensure tyre durability so early in the weekend – “It’s hard to make a tyre a last even 10 laps here, so to complete so many laps at the pace we did is encouraging for us. The team did a great job”.

Behind Sofuoglu, Jules Cluzel improved his time to consolidate 2^nd position overall ahead of the improving Lorenzo Zanetti (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) and American PJ Jacobsen (Kawasaki Intermoto Ponyexpress) who elevated himself to 4^th on his final lap.

Gino Rea (CIA Landlords Insurance Honda), who is returning to the WorldSBK paddock after three seasons in Moto2 took an impressive 5^th on his first competitive ride on a Supersport machine since 2011, the Londoner confident of further improvement as the test continues tomorrow.

Local wildcard rider Aiden Wagner (Oz Wildcard Racing) completed the top six.

The top ten were rounded out by Roberto Rolfo (Lorini Honda), Marco Faccani (San Carlo Puccetti Racing), Riccardo Russo (CIA Landlords Insurance Honda) and Kyle Smith (Pata Honda World Supersport Team) respectively.

Australian Glenn Scott (AARK Racing) took his Honda CBR600cc machine to 19^th overall while Alex Phillis substitute rider for Alessandro Nocco (Lorini Honda) was 20^th. The second local wildcard entry of Sam Lambert powering his Triumph Daytona machine to 22^nd in the combined classification.

Kyle Smith was the only faller today, the Englishman should be back in action tomorrow.

Of the 24 entered riders, the CATBIKE/exit Kawasaki pairing of Nacho Calero and Marcos Ramirez failed to record a time in either session, the team preferring to ensure everything is 100% with the machine preparation before allowing the riders to take to the track while Thai rider Ratthapark Wilairot (CORE Motorsport Thailand) managed only 20 laps after there was a delay in receiving his riding gear.

The final two 110 minute timed test sessions will take place tomorrow at 1120 and 1540 local time.

Results morning session - pdf

Results afternoon session - pdf

Combined results day 1 - pdf