Aragon World Superbike: Race 1 LIVE UPDATES

Replays of Lowes' crash show his bike smoking all the way through turn three and into turn four before his rear tyre lost grip and high-sided him. As he was walking away he was holding his left arm up.

The red flag is out in Aragon due to "track conditions".

Sam Lowes has crashed out at turn five. It was a huge high-side for the Marc VDS rider but he's on his feet.

It's lights out in Aragon, and Andrea Iannone has made the holeshot ahead of Bulega and Razgatlioglu.

The warm-up lap is underway in Aragon, we're only a couple of minutes away from lights out.

We're five minutes out from the start of Race 1 at the Aragon WorldSBK.

Alvaro Bautista returned from injury last week in Cremona, and has so far reported feeling better this weekend than last with the rib he fractured in France at the beginning of September. An eighth Aragon win today would be his third of the season, and his first since winning the Assen Superpole Race in April.

Jonathan Rea is also making his return from injury this weekend and will start 13th in his first race back. 

Toprak Razgatlioglu will start his first race today since Race 2 at Portimao at the end of August. He'll start from fifth on the grid, and will defend a 13-point championship lead over pole sitter Bulega.

Welcome back to MotorLand Aragon for live coverage of WorldSBK Race 1 at the Aragon World Superbike round. Nicolo Bulega starts from pole position, after setting a new lap record in Superpole earlier today.

Aragon World Superbike - Superpole Result

The chequered flag is out, and it's Nicolo Bulega who has taken pole position, and is the only rider in the 1:47s. Alex Lowes had crashed at turn five but seems to be okay, he's qualified sixth, but it's and all-Ducati front row with Iannone and Bautista alongside Bulega.

Razgatlioglu up to fifth with this latest lap, almost half-a-second off Bulega.

And there's a lap record. No SCQ tyres this weekend but Nicolo Bulega didn't need one to do a 1:47.840, and he takes pole position as Danilo Petrucci moves up to fourth place in his wake.

Riders heading back out now for their second runs, and it's still Iannone's 1:48.208 to beat.

Nicolo Bulega gets onto the front row with his first lap in third place. Toprak Razgatlioglu's first lap put him seventh, but he's only 0.202s off the pace.

Andrea Iannone sets the early benchmark at a 1:48.208, and Alvaro Bautista slots in behind him in second place, 0.050s adrift.

Superpole is now underway in Aragon, and the riders are filtering out onto the race track.

We're just under two minutes away from WorldSBK Superpole in Aragon. Conditions look fairly perfect on what is a freshly resurfaced MotorLand Aragon layout.

Welcome to Aragon for live coverage of today's WorldSBK Superpole session. Garrett Gerloff was fastest in Friday practice, but Alvaro Bautista put himself and Ducati on top in this morning's FP3 session.