Supersport practice at Jerez: Randy Krummenacher’s record remains unbroken

In the Supersport World Championship, there is only one 40-minute free practice session on Friday, with qualifying starting at 4 pm. When the session got underway at 11.35 am, the temperature was already 26 degrees Celsius, and the thermometer is set to climb to over 30 degrees in the afternoon.

World Champion Albert Arenas, riding for Andrea Quadranti’s Swiss AS Yamaha team, set the first notable fastest time of 1:42.157 minutes at the start, just over 0.4 seconds off Randy Krummenacher’s seven-year-old pole record (Yamaha R6, 1:41.775 mins). The fastest race lap by Nicolo Bulega, set in 2023 on a Ducati V2, is barely slower at 1:41.875 mins.

The standings were shaken up considerably in the final 15 minutes: first, Jorge Navarro took top spot on the timing screens with a time of 1:42.108 min. The Spaniard is riding for PTR Triumph this weekend in place of Oliver Bayliss, who is competing in the British Championship and still has a chance of finishing second overall.

Navarro improved his time to 1:42.067 in the next lap, but was pipped one minute before the end by Matteo Ferrari from the Czech WRP Ducati team, who clocked 1:42.020.

In the end, Ferrari was 0.047 seconds ahead of Navarro and 0.137 seconds ahead of Arenas. Whilst Arenas has already been confirmed as champion and Valentin Debise (ZX Moto/18th) as runner-up, the battle for third place in the overall standings promises to be a thrilling one: Can Öncü (Yamaha), Jaume Masia (Ducati), Jeremy Alcoba (Kawasaki) and Tom Booth-Amos (Triumph) are separated by just 17 points – they finished in 6th, 9th, 7th and 8th places respectively.

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The form of two-time world champion Dominique Aegerter, who is having a disastrous year with the Kawasaki works team, has been on the up since Estoril. The 36-year-old continued this trend in Jerez, spending most of the race in the top seven and finishing 10th.

Philipp Öttl (Feel Ducati), the only German in the field, was flying under the radar on the circuit where he won his only Grand Prix in the Moto3 class in 2018 until shortly before the blackand white chequered flag, but managed to climb to 11th place with just 2 minutes remaining on the clock.

Austrian World Championship rookie Andreas Kofler finished 29th in the field of 33 riders, whilst Honda rider Ana Carrasco came last.