Estoril World Superbike: Superpole LIVE UPDATES
Live coverage from the WorldSBK Superpole session at the Estoril World Superbike round.
The WorldSBK Superpole session in Estoril is set to start at 11:00 local time, with Race 1 coming up later today at 14:00 local time.
Petrucci stays second with his final lap after a scare in the final sector, only 0.082s shy of Razgatlioglu who takes pole position. Jonathan Rea rounds out the front row, and Alex Lowes ends ninth after his early crash. For Bautista, it's 11th place after losing the front at turn six.
Tarran Mackenzie up to seventh with his last lap, and here comes Petrucci...
Rea improves his time but stays third with his lap, as Razgatlioglu goes pole with his final lap.
Alex Lowes goes eighth with his first lap, and Jonathan Rea is ona PB.
Razgatlioglu improves to second place with his latest lap, 0.111s behind Petrucci.
Alvaro Bautista has crashed at the Interior Parabolica. He was on a personal best lap, but with only a minute left the best he can now hope for is seventh place.
Nicolo Buelga said yesterday he needed to find some speed, and it seems that he has - he's third for now, one place above Razgatlioglu, who is on an improving lap.
Danilo Petrucci has hit the top now and is over 0.7s clear of Rea, as Toprak Razgatlioglu's first timed lap gets him up to fourth place.
Michael van der Mark has moved up to second place with his latest lap, and has cut Rea's advantage to 0.375s, as Alex Lowes heads back out.
Toprak Razgatlioglu is yet to set a time, but he's completing an out-lap at the moment with just over five minutes to go.
Rea has increased his advantage at the top of the times, and is now over one second clear of the field, with Alvaro Bautista having moved up to second place.
Lowes has got back on his Kawasaki and is riding back to pit lane now. There's eight minutes left in the session so it will be work against the clock for Kawasaki to get him back out to set a time.
Alex Lowes was on a strong opening lap, but he's crashed at turn eight, being high-sided over the top. He seems okay and has walked away but that looks like it will be Superpole over for Lowes.
It's Jonathan Rea who's set the early pace, following Danilo Petrucci on the pair's opening lap of the session.
Conditions are patchy at best at the moment, and with only 13 minutes now remaining it's hard to see anyone switching to slicks before the end of the session.
We have a green light at the end of pit lane and WorldSBK Superpole is underway in Estoril.
Danilo Petrucci has also shown competitive pace this weekend, having finished second in all three free practice sessions. For the Italian, this weekend is a first trip to Estoril since his debut MotoGP season in 2012 on the Ioda ART CRT machine, in which, he joked earlier this weekend, he was lapped by Casey Stoner.
Toprak Razgatlioglu was the dominant rider on Friday in Estoril, but it was Jonathan Rea who topped this morning's wet FP3 session.
Welcome to Estoril for live coverage of the WorldSBK Superpole session, which is set to get underway in around 10 minutes at 11:00 local time.
