Britain's Bradley Ray ignored the wet track and the fact that he had never been to Misano before to dominate free practice and both qualifying sessions for Saturday's Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup race on the Adriatic coast.
The 15-year-old is joined on the front row of the grid for the San Marino Grand Prix by Nicolo Castellini, Lukas Trautmann and Stefano Manzi.
Fresh from his British Motostar Championship win at Donington Park Ray quickly adapted to the Misano circuit. “It's a lot of fun, no problem at all. I don't really mind if the race is wet or dry. We don't have any dry track time here but we will just go back to the base setting we found at the Sachsenring, that will be fine. It took us a while this year to get the good base setting but now I'm a lot happier with the bike and enjoying it.”
Compatriots and Motostar rivals Kyle Ryde and Tarran Mackenzie ended qualifying in fifth and 14th respectively.
Red Bull Rookies qualifying practice two - conditions wet
1 28 Bradley RAY GBR Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'04.288 5 13 186.1
2 98 Karel HANIKA CZE Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'04.807 8 14 0.519 0.519 182.2
3 11 Livio LOI BEL Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'04.867 14 14 0.579 0.060 184.6
4 3 Diego PEREZ SPA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'05.089 8 14 0.801 0.222 180.2
5 77 Kyle RYDE GBR Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'05.403 14 14 1.115 0.314 178.4
6 7 Lorenzo BALDASSARRI ITA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'05.440 10 10 1.152 0.037 176.8
7 75 Ivo LOPES POR Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'05.462 14 14 1.174 0.022 179.5
8 8 Hafiq AZMI MAL Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'05.854 9 12 1.566 0.392 181.1
9 21 Filippo SCALBI ITA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'06.117 13 14 1.829 0.263 179.6
10 24 Marcos RAMIREZ SPA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'06.291 14 14 2.003 0.174 184.0
11 34 Jordan WEAVING RSA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'06.475 6 14 2.187 0.184 179.1
12 27 Joe ROBERTS USA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'07.160 5 13 2.872 0.685 182.4
13 47 Nicolo CASTELLINI ITA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'07.912 7 10 3.624 0.752 184.6
14 19 Tarran MACKENZIE GBR Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'08.390 10 13 4.102 0.478 181.9
15 95 Scott DEROUE NED Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'08.861 2 2 4.573 0.471 183.5
16 50 Lukas TRAUTMANN AUT Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'08.963 5 6 4.675 0.102 178.7
17 18 Aaron ESPAÑA SPA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'08.982 10 11 4.694 0.019 177.7
18 5 Philipp OETTL GER Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'10.661 3 3 6.373 1.679 180.7
19 29 Stefano MANZI ITA Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'11.016 6 10 6.728 0.355 182.9
20 66 Florian ALT GER Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'11.962 3 4 7.674 0.946 181.6
21 46 Yui WATANABE JPN Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup KTM 2'18.869 4 5 14.581 6.907 179.8
