MillSport Ducati’s Jakub Smrz rocketed to the top of the Cartagena Pro-Test timesheets this afternoon, banging in a 1’34.3 lap to take him within spitting distance of Tommy Bridewell’s time from yesterday.

The former WSBK star had spent the opening two days getting used to his 199 Panigale and using the time to get setup on the harder compound Pirelli SC1 tyre but then tried the softer SC0, which is still a race tyre and not like the SC0 of two years ago, and immediately went quicker, with four laps in the 1’34 bracket.

Milwaukee’s Yamaha’s Bridewell, who crashed in the second session, recovered to put in some short distance runs and was consistently in the high 1’33s as was team-mate Josh Brookes.

The Australian’s quickest of the day was a 1’34.7, but he was able to put in a run of laps in the late 1’34s, early 1’54s on worn SC1s.

Tyco Suzuki’s John Hopkins and Josh Waters were lapping in the early 1’35s as was Martin Jessopp on the Riders BMW.