WorldSBK 2025 Jerez test - Day 1 AS IT HAPPENED

Jerez WorldSBK test results, day one, final

Garrett Gerloff goes third fastest with a 1'39.332 lap.

Tarran MacKenzie has crashed. Rider OK.

Danilo Petrucci creeps into the top five with a 1'39.548 lap.

Bulega is fastest, Iannone is second.

Bassani is third, Garrett Gerloff fourth.

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Nicolo Bulega has returned to the top of the times and is the first rider in the 1:38s; a 1:38.731 has him now 0.732s clear at the top over Axel Bassani, while Andrea Iannone is 1.106s adrift in third place.

Sam Lowes is working with Gorka Sergua, who was previously with Xavi Vierge.

Vierge now has Tetsuya Sasaki.

Axel Bassani's lap of 1'39.463s is enough to edge ahead of Nicolo Bulega at the top.

Bassani has now nipped ahead of Iannone at the top of the timesheet.

1. Iannone
2. Bassani
3. Van Der Mark
4. Bautista
5. Gerloff
6. Bulega
7. Lowes
8. Rea
9. Vierge
10. Petrucci

Axel Bassani has gone to the top of the times on the Bimota, a 1:40.276 puts him 0.009s ahead of van der Mark, with Bautista now rounding out the top three.

Sam Lowes goes second on the timesheet with a 1'40.347 lap.

Alvaro Bautista goes third with a 1'40.544 lap.

Jonathan Rea posts a 1'40.717s lap, he's second behind Van Der Mark.

Andrea Iannone is third.

Michael van der Mark has crashed at Turn 8. Rider is OK.

Van der Mark into the 1:40s now, his 1:40.285 puts him just under half-a-second clear of Jonathan Rea, while Axel Bassani is third on the Bimota.

Van der Mark has now lowered the best time so far to a 1:41.104. 

For reference, the pole position record for WorldSBK was set last year by Nicolo Bulega at a 1:37.596, and his race lap record (from last year's Superpole Race) is a 1:38.528. 

So we're still a little way off representative lap times.

Scott Redding's Bonovo MGM Ducati team has unveiled its 2025 livery this morning in Jerez.

Redding puts a 1'43.015s lap on the board.

Michael van der Mark and Scott Redding are the first riders out on track today.

WSBK champion Toprak Razgatlioglu injured a finger during training.

He will definitely miss this two-day Jerez test.

Razgatlioglu said: “Maybe I’ll be at Portimao. If not, for sure, Phillip Island.

“I crashed with the enduro bike. In the off-season, I’m always riding an enduro bike because I love it but I crashed.

“It was very small, I don’t understand why my finger is broken.

“I need time, maybe two weeks or three. I’ll try to come back at the Portimao test.”

The track has opened, meaning official testing for the new year is underway.