Ducati’s Davide Giugliano has topped the opening day’s Jerez World Superbike test timesheets with a laptime only four-tenths slower than Eugene Laverty’s pole time from last season.
The Roman went round in a 1’41.056 to be a little less than half a second clear of team-mate Chaz Davies. The Welshman was a further tenth up on reigning champion Tom Sykes with Jonathan Rea in fourth and points leader Sylvain Guintoli in fifth three-quarters of a second off the pace.
Jerez WSBK test day one - conditions dry
1 Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team) 1'41.056
2 Chaz Davies (Ducati Superbike Team) 1'41.468
3 Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) 1'41.545
4 Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda) 1'41.624
5 Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing) 1'41.754
6 Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) 1'41.821
7 Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) 1'41.905
8 Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing team) 1'41.932
9 Leon Haslam (Pata Honda) 1'42.153
10 Eugene Laverty (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) 1'42.648
11 David Salom (Kawasaki Racing Team) 1'43.642
