The opening WorldSBK Superpole session of 2024 was🧸 frantic as every rider head𒁃ed out of pit lane immediately.

Like FP2, A🌱lex Lowes was the early pacesetter as he set a new lap recor🔥d aboard his Kawasaki machine.

• Alex Lowes: “We can maybe haജve a more aggressive setti🦩ng on the bike” 
• Toprak Razgatlioglu: ‘I worked for the race as I need to see who 🙈I’ll be fighting’

But while world champion Alvaro Bautista struggled for pace, rookie team-mate Nicolo Bulega soꦺon put his Ducati one pole.

The timingsheets were being lit up by several riders, including Andrea Iannone who secured a 💮front row🍰 start in his first-ever WorldSBK qualifying.

However, 🌃no one could challenge Bulega who became the first WorldSBK rider ever to dip below the 1m 28s barrier.

B⭕ehind the two rookies came Lowes, with three tenths separating the Kawasaki rider and Bulega.

Further back, Toprak Razgatlioglu could ꧒o෴nly manage fifth in his first qualifying as a BMW rider, while Bautista finished ninth, two places ahead of a struggling Jonathan Rea.