Bassani improves his time to 1'39.527s, but it's not enough to overhaul Gerloff to remains top of the timesheet.
Garrett Gerloff completes a 1'39.229s lap to go top of the timesheet.
He leads Axel Bassani and Alvaro Bautista.
"You’ve got to get the bike out of the corner, get it upright, use the power. It is super fast."
“We tried things [on Tuesday] which are different so we decided to go home one day before.
“We collected a lot of data [on Tuesday]. We know where we have to work.
“Ducati and my team will go home with this data to improve our package, which is already very good.
“But you have to improve every year, always.
“I will rest because the last part of the season was tough.
“Then, I'll start to train very hard for next season.”
“I am okay,” he said about crashing yesterday.
“I was just braking. I lost the front. But without physical consequences for me.”
- Bassani
- Bautista
- Lowes
- MacKenzie
Bimota duo Lowes and Bassani are swiftly into the 1'39s club.
Alvaro Bautista has already posted a 1'39.764s lap, that's only two tenths from his best time yesterday.
Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani are on track riding the Bimota for the first time.
Yesterday, Bimota's test rider took charge of the first laps.
Yesterday's pace-setter Nicolo Bulega won't be testing today.
Bautista, Gerloff, Bridewell, Booth-Amos and Vierge are back out on track to kickstart Day 2.