Kawasaki Puccetti Racing’s Kenan Sofuoglu led the charge on Friday afternoon at the Lausitzring, smashing his FP1 times and creating a new lap record of 1’40.901, ahead of second placed GRT Racing Team rider Gino Rea. Finnish wildcard Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing) impressed on his second outing for the day, rounding out the top three.

Sofuoglu led for the entire session with Rea his closest rival, before the Turk topped his own time, demonstrating why he is 4 times World Champion. Wide race lines on turn 5 caused debris from the track markers being run over to temporarily halt the session at the halfway point. Once the track was cleaned up, the battle for entry to Tissot-Superpole 2 resumed.

MV Agusta Reparto Corse rider Jules Cluzel put in a stunning lap in the last minutes of the session, to break into the top ten and finish in fourth ahead of Federico Caricasulo (BARDAHL Evan Bros. Honda Racing) in fifth. CIA Landlord Insurance Honda’s Christoffer Bergman ended the session comfortably in sixth position ahead of GEMAR Balloons – Team Lorini rider Ayrton Badovini in seventh- another new comer to the top ten.

Two riders who moved down the timesheets from FP1 were Honda World Supersport Team’s Partick Jacobsen and Luke Stapleford of Profile Racing, who finished in eighth and ninth respectively. Kawasaki Puccetti’s Randy Krummenacher didn’t improve from FP1 either, coming home in tenth, but still gained direct entry to Tissot-Superpole 2.

Tissot-Superpole 2 will see the Top Ten battle it out for the top grid positions tomorrow at 11:55 local time (GMT+2) ahead of Sunday’s race.