This morning, rain fell again in Assen, for a third free practice session of the World Superbike Championship in which Nicolò Bulega was the fastest. Due to the weather conditions, no one improved compared to yesterday.
The Italian from Aruba.it Ducati was constantly fighting for the top position, but it wasn’t until the last ten minutes that he set the time that left him definitively at the top: 1m44.660s. At the time, Alex Lowes (Kawasaki) was in the lead, and the British rider was relegated to second place, finishing 1.089s slower than Bulega.
Axel Bassani (Kawasaki) was third after also leading at some point, while Michael van der Mark (ROKiT BMW) and Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Ducati) – the fastest yesterday – rounded out the top five.
Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW) was eighth ahead of Andrea Iannone (Team GoEleven/Ducati), and Jonathan Rea (Pata Prometeon Yamaha) finished in 14th place even though he was one of the riders who had the fastest time at some point.
Seven riders had times above 105% of the fastest, including Xavi Vierge (from the Honda factory team) and the experienced Scott Redding (Bonovo Action BMW).
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