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Phillip Island WSBK: Rea fastest in session two as track heats up

Reigning WorldSBK Champion Jonathan Rea put in the quickest time of today’s second WorldSBK free practice session at Phillip Island but it is title rival Chaz Davies who finished at the top of the day-one tree.

Davies’ time from this morning wasn’t under threat as the Australian tarmac got up to 30°C and Rea’s best of 1’30.588 was half a second off what Davies achieved with five degrees less track temperature. The Welshman himself only managed a 1’31.000 in the afternoon.

None of the top four riders from this morning went any quicker but returning Italian hero Marco Melandri in fifth managed to, as did Britain’s Alex Lowes and Lorenzo Savadori on the Milwaukee Aprilia. The Ducati and Yamaha men found fractions pace but Savadori went almost a second faster to post a 1’30.847.

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Team-mate and ex-MotoGP star Eugene Laverty also found some pace, dropping his time by half a second but just misses out on an automatic Superpole two place. Nicky Hayden, Jordi Torres and Markus Reiterberger are between the two with Michael Van Der Mark also unable to improve in 12th, so he will also be fighting his way through Superpole one.

Leon Camier’s lap total went up from four to six for the day as the MV Agusta man experienced mechanical woes and didn’t record a flying lap in the second session. Randy Krummenacher and Alex De Angelis complete the top 15 overall with Stefan Bradl 16th and Josh Brookes, who went under the 1’32 barrier for the first time, in 18th with a 1’31.973.

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Top ten speeds

1 33 M. MELANDRI Ducati Panigale R 314,0
2 50 E. LAVERTY Aprilia RSV4 RF 314,0
3 1 J. REA Kawasaki ZX-10R 313,0
4 7 C. DAVIES Ducati Panigale R 313,0
5 22 A. LOWES Yamaha YZF R1 309,5
6 40 R. RAMOS Kawasaki ZX-10R 309,5
7 60 M. VAN DER MARK Yamaha YZF R1 308,6
8 15 A. DE ANGELIS Kawasaki ZX-10R 308,6
9 12 X. FORÉS Ducati Panigale R 307,7
10 66 T. SYKES Kawasaki ZX-10R 307,7

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