Scott Redding set a blistering pace at the end of WorldSBK FP3 at Magny-Cours to take top spot fr𒈔om Toprak Razgatlioglu.&🍌nbsp;

Alex Lowes was the rider with the💃 early pace before team-mate Jonathan Reaꦑ went quickest with the best lap of the weekend. 

But with nine minutes remaining, ch🌱ampionship leader Razgatlioglu moved to the top with a first sub 1m 🔥37s lap. 

The Yamaha rider then improved his lap again by just under a tenth - put him four tenths clear of 𓄧Rea in second. 

Rea did manage to reduce Razgatlioglu’s advantage to just over a tenth, before Redding set a stunning 1:36.393s - nearly three tenths faster than Razgatlioglu. 💦;

There was a b🐲izarre incident between GRT Yamaha riders Garrett Gerloff and Kohta Nozane as their bikes were lying on-track together. Both riders were ok and remounted beforeꦕ heading down pit lane.

Not for the first time this year, Michael Van Der Mark was reduced to watching the action from his pit box following issuꦏes with his M 1000 RR machine. 

Free Practice Two

World Superbike championship leader Toprak Razgatlioglu dominated FP2 a🦋t Magny-Cours.&n🐈bsp;

After a slight delay to 🙈FP2 because of track conditions being affected in the WorldSSP300 session, it was 🎉Chaz Davies who set the pace. 

The GoEleven Ducati r🔯ider built on his impres🌜sive final ten minutes of FP1 in which he finished sixth, while MIchael Van Der Mark did the same in third. Separating the Ducati and BMW riders early on was Kawasaki’s Alex Lowes.  

The front three remained the🦩 same for over half the session before Razgatlioglu went to the top by just under two tenths. 

Razgatlioglu's top time began a consistent run of laps that all would have been good enough for the top𝔍 three, before further improving his time by 0.011s.&n💞bsp;

After Tom Sykes momentarily went second fastest, Davies then regained sec🐻ond with a lap just 0.014s slower than the Yamaha rider, while Scott Redding moved up to sixth - on spot behind Jonathan Rea. 

Koha Nozane suffered a crash late on while Van Der Mark enc꧑ountered a mechanical issue aboardౠ his BMW M 1000 RR. 

Razgatlioglu reinforced his advantage at the top once the time attacks started, while Rea went second - three tenths slower than his main title rival. Redding then split 🐠the pair with his fi♛nal lap to finish second overall.

Free Practice One

Jonathan Rea topped the opening WorldSBK practice s𒁃ession at Magny-Cours ahead of Michael Van Der Mark and Alex L😼owes. 

While a mostly dry weekend at Magny-Cours has been foreca🦩sted, riders chose to stay in pit lane early on as overnight rain dampened the track surface. 

Three o♕f those riders included championsh🌱ip contenders Toprak Razgatlioglu, Rea and Scott Redding. 

Kohta Nozane w👍as one of the first to venture out alongside Barni Ducati rider Tito Rabat. 

Short of running at 🅘the French circuit in recent seasons, Honda pairing Alvaro Bautista and Leon Haslam were others to test out the conditions. 

After setting the fastest lap of the four runners, Bautista returned to pit lane along with Nozane, while team-mate Haslam and Rabat conꦍtinued on. 

It wasn’t until 20 minutes to go until that the action began to pick up courtesy of Andrea Locatelli. The Italian was soon followed by championship leader Razgatlioglu and Aruba.it Ducati duo Redding and Michael💧 Rinaldi. 

With under ten minutes to go every rider was out on 💧track and setting personal best lap times through to thꦅe checkered flag. 

Redding was thꦏe man at the top for most of it, before being bettered by Razga🌳tlioglu, Lowes, Van Der Mark and Rea in the final minute.