Italian World Superbike: Race 1 LIVE UPDATES

The chequered flag is out and Nicolo Bulega has pole position in Cremona, ahead of Andrea Iannone and Danilo Petrucci, who will ultimately start Race 1 in sixth.

Iannone extends his advantage at the top,  but it's Nico Bulega who goes to the top with the first ever 1:27. Now Lowes has crashed, and so has Bulega. Both seem to be okay, but the yellow flags are out.

Now Petrucci goes second - he has a three-place grid penalty after his incident with Remy Gardner yesterday, so he's effectively fifth.

Iannone's advantage had been cut to under 0.1s, as Alex Lowes and then Nico Bulega go into second place. So it's now Iannone from Bulega and Lowes.

Most riders in pit lane at the moment, but Scott Redding moves himself up to nitnh with his latest lap, pushing Bautista onto row four.

Lecuona has been down at turn seven. He's back up and riding his way back to the pits.

Alex Lowes has moved up to second now, but Iannone still has  a half-second advantage on the field.

Nicco Canepa has crashed out. He's up and okay but not the ideal start to his Superpole.

Andrea Iannone has taken the early advantage and he's over half-a-second clear of Nicolo Bulega with 10 minutes left on the clock.

No lap times in yet but Alessandro Delbianco has crashed at turn two, which is going to cancel some lap times with yellow flags.

We have a green light at the end of pit lane and Superpole is underway in Cremona.

Just under 10 minutes away from Superpole now, and the most interest is surely around the performance of Nicolo Bulega. With so many slow corners at Cremona, qualifying position is going to be key for the Italian in his quest to further close his championship deficit to the absent Razgatlioglu.

Just a reminder, too - if you needed it - that we're without Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea this weekend after their respective injuries at the French Round a couple of weeks ago.

Alex Lowes was fastest in Friday practice, but Andrea Iannone leads the way into this Superpole session, having set the fastest time of the weekend so far in FP3 this morning at a 1:28.779. The Italian is the only rider to have lapped in the 1:28s all weekend.

Welcome to northern Italy for live coverage from the first ever WorldSBK Superpole session at the Cremona Circuit.  We're around 20 minutes away from the start of the session at 11:00 local time.