Texan Garrett Gerloff topped the moist second WorldSBK free practice session at Most, heading the pack by a little under half a second as half the field elected to not get their hair wet.
Gerloff - on the GRT Yamaha R1 - set a 1’35.301 on his second lap of two before the heavens opened to finish ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu who remains the fastest man on combined times after his dry performance this morning.
A sharp fall of rain shortly after the start of FP2 saw everyone in the WorldSBK category head for the shelter of Most’s few and relatively small pit garages. The shelter was welcome all the same as the rains thickened and effectively halted the meaningful action.
Gerloff led the times in FP2 before the rains arrived but the dry morning session was faster in any case, with Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team) topping the charts with a 1’33.022 best time, fully 0.600 seconds up on second placed rider Alex Lowes (KRT).
Third was Scott Redding (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati), who had some degree of testing experience at Most recently.
Wildcard rider Marvin Fritz (IXZ-YART Yamaha) was a remarkable and Most-experienced fourth, with Assen podium first-timer Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team) fifth.
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) was sixth, and top BMW rider proved to be Tom Sykes (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) in seventh place.
Alvaro Bautista (HRC Honda) was top Honda rider in eighth place, ahead of another wild card rider Karel Hanika (IXZ-YART Yamaha) in ninth and Garrett Gerloff (GRT Yamaha) tenth.
A few brave souls went out to set laps in the rain in FP2, notably Razgatlioglu and Leon Haslam (HRC Honda) among them.
