Aragon World Superbike Friday Practice Results: Gerloff keeps BMW on top

After Toprak Razgatlioglu topped WorldSBK FP1 at Aragon, Garrett Gerloff was fastest in FP2.

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Garrett Gerloff was fastest in WorldSBK FP2 at Aragon, which was red flagged after 10 minutes.

The cause for the red flag was track conditions at the pit lane exit, where Xavi Vierge's Honda had ended up after contact between turns one and two with Philipp Oettl.

There were also crashes for Sam Lowes and Tarran Mackenzie before the stoppage, as well as Alvaro Bautista. Marvin Fritz crashed towards the end of the session.

Nicolo Bulega was fastest for much of the session post-red-fag, but lost out to Gerlfof at the end. Bautista ended up completing the top three.

Danilo Petrucci was fourth, ahead of Andrea Iannone and Sam Lowes; while Michael van der Mark was seventh-fastest from Iker Lecuona, Toprak Razgatioglu, and Remy Gardner who rounded out the top 10.

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Toprak Razgatlioglu was fastest in WorldSBK FP1 at the Aragon World Superbike round, going fastest by almost half-a-second.

Razgatliogu was not the most active rider in the session, but completed 14 laps in his first session back on track in WorldSBK after his injuries from France.

His margin at the end was 0.465 seconds, as his final lap saw him improve from 13th place.

Garrett Gerloff made it a BMW 1-2, much as he did the last time Razgatlioglu topped an FP1 session, at Magny-Cours three weeks ago.

Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona both spent time at the top of the times, but ended third and fourth, respectively, while Alvaro Bautista rounded out the top five.

Andrea Iannone was sixth, and the first of a flurry of Italians, with Danilo Petrucci, Michael Ruben Rinaldi, Axel Bassani, Nicolo Bulega, and Andrea Locatelli all behind him.

Jonathan Rea's return to action after his own Magny-Cours injury saw him set the 17th-fastest time, while the aforementioned Locatelli was the best Yamaha rider in 11th place.