Riba leads wet Supersport practice.

MSS Discovery Kawasaki's Pere Riba led the way round Silverstone during wet free practice ahead of round five of the World Supersport Championship.

Riba who is entered as a wild card in the British round was 2.4secs faster than his nearest rival, French man Matthieu Lagrive on the Intermoto Czech Klaffi Honda, rounding out the top three was Barry Veneman on his Hoegee Suzuki.

The wet weather always level the field and young Canadian rider Chris Peris made it into tenth place on his Bikersdays Moto 1 Yamaha. The usual front runners were all placed outside the top ten, with the Yamaha Germany pairing of Parks and Curtain in eleventh and twelfth respectively. The Winston Ten Kate Honda team were in fifteenth and sixteenth with Sebastien Charpentier ahead of Kenan Sofuoglu.

Top British finisher was Stuart Easton on the SC Carrachi Ducati, he came home in twentieth. Next up was Angel Racing's Steven Neate who is riding for Northpoint Ekerold Honda this weekend, he finished in twenty fourth after being involved in a crash which brought out the red flags as debris needed to be cleared from the track. Tom Tunstall who is the only British privateer in supersport was thirty first and Sam Owens who is replacing David Forner Garcia on the Tati Team Beaujolais Yamaha was thirty third.

WSS free practice results (1) - Silverstone:

1. Pere Riba
2. Matthieu Lagrive
3. Barry Veneman
4. Maxime Berger
5. Kai Borre Andersen
6. Javier Fores
7. Mauro Sanchini
8. David Checa
9. Gregory LeBlanc
10. Chris Peris