Yakhnich Yamaha’s Sam Lowes dominated the World Supersport qualifying practice session, and reached the top of the timesheets with just over fifteen minutes remaining, out pacing MAHI Racing’s Kenan Sofuoglu in the process.

Lowes did start off the outing as the quickest rider, only for his Kawasaki rival to up the speed, but he could only manage a few minutes and laps as the provisional pole sitter, as Lowes went one tenth of a second quicker to clinch the number one spot on the timesheet, with a 1'42.144. But the session ended early for Sofuoglu as he experienced a technical problem and retired to the pits.

Pata Honda’s Lorenzo Zanetti was in the mid pack for the majority of the session, but a fast final lap pushed him to third quickest with a 1’42.721, meaning ParkinGO MV’s Christian Iddon was forced down to fourth. The Stockport lad was lapping consistently quick times and kept up with the pace of the leading two rider’s, but was just pipped to the post in the dying seconds by Zanetti, with Lowes’ team-mate Vladimir Leonov rounding off the top five.

DMC-Lorenzini rider Kev Coghlan was on the heels of fellow Brit Iddon throughout the session, but as the chequered flag appeared fell back down to sixth, followed by Pata Honda’s Michael Van der Mark, with MAHI Racing’s Fabien Foret rounding off the top ten.

Rivamoto’s Jack Kennedy ended the World Supersport qualifying practice session in fifteenth after he could only muster a 1’43.794, and PTR Honda team-mates, Danny Webb and wildcard rider Lee Johnston ended the afternoon nineteenth and 22nd respectively.

VTR Racing’s Fabio Menghi crashed at Lycee with 35 minutes remaining of the session, and was sent to the medical centre, causing a red flag to appear. But he was not the only rider to succumb to that corner, after the re-start DMC-Lorenzini’s Alexey Ivanov and Kawasaki Intermoto’s Florian Marino quickly followed suit and crashed.