Monday wrap from World Supersport Testing at Phillip Island

2023 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship - Phillip Island pre-season testing - Day One WorldSSP Times

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Phillip Island pre-season Test Day One

For the second and final World Supersport session conditions were still beautiful here at Phillip Island. Clear blue skies, an ever so slight breeze, an ambient temperature of 22-degrees and a track temperature that was just over double that.

Unfortunately the test might have ended for Tarran Mackenzie. The new Honda developed what sounded like terminal engine problems and no spares have made it here as yet.

There was a brief red flag stoppage after Bahattin Sofuoglu threw his MV Agusta down the road but the Turk was uninjured in the fall.

There was also another red flag delay for Cape Barren Geese on track that interrupted proceedings, for the fourth time today…

Oli Bayliss had been trying to work through some electronics issues with his new D34G Racing Team and it was ultimately those gremlins that sent the teenager down the road at MG Hairpin in this session. That lost him some valuable set-up and problem solving time as the team made the small repairs necessary to get Oli back on track.

Once back up and running though he improved his pace to 1m34.103, to finish the opening day of the two-day test third quickest.

Aruba Ducati’s Nicolo Bulega finished the day on top with his 1m33.527 besting Ten Kate Yamaha’s Stefano Manzi by just over two-tenths.

WorldSSP riders will have another 1hr50min session starting at 1120 on Tuesday morning followed by a final session getting underway at 1550.

WorldSSP Test Times
Monday Combined Times

Pos	Rider	Nat	Time	Gap	Laps
1	BULEGA Nicolo	ITA	1’33.527	–	67
2	MANZI Stefano	ITA	1’33.743	+0.216	55
3	BAYLISS Oliver	AUS	1’34.103	+0.576	49
4	CARICASULO Federico	ITA	1’34.242	+0.715	42
5	ONCU Can	TUR	1’34.285	+0.758	40
6	MONTELLA Yari	ITA	1’34.345	+0.818	55
7	HUERTAS Adrian	ESP	1’34.445	+0.918	42
8	DE ROSA Raffaele	ITA	1’34.473	+0.946	50
9	TUULI Niki	FIN	1’34.792	+1.265	45
10	SPINELLI Nicholas	ITA	1’34.850	+1.323	55
11	MANTOVANI Andrea	ITA	1’35.096	+1.569	58
12	DEBISE Valentin	FRA	1’35.198	+1.671	65
13	VAN STRAALEN Glenn	NED	1’35.282	+1.755	69
14	SCHROETTER Marcel	GER	1’35.891	+2.364	50
15	NAVARRO Jorge	ESP	1’35.921	+2.394	55
16	WONGTHANANON Apiw	THA	1’36.310	+2.783	62
17	SOFUOGLU Bahattin	TUR	1’36.370	+2.843	43
18	SARMOON Anupab	THA	1’36.705	+3.178	62
19	NORRODIN Adam	MAS	1’37.098	+3.571	40
20	TRUELOVE Harry	GBR	1’38.864	+5.337	44
21	MACKENZIE Tarran	GBR	1’38.939	+5.412	13
22	MCPHEE John	GBR	1’43.047	+9.520	9

WorldSSP Top Speeds

Pos	Rider	Speed (km/h)
1	N. BULEGA	274.1
2	A. HUERTAS	272.0
3	B. SOFUOGLU	271.4
4	V. DEBISE	271.4
5	M. SCHROETTER	270.7
6	F. CARICASULO	268.7
7	J. NAVARRO	268.7
8	Y. MONTELLA	267.3
9	C. ONCU	267.3
10	A. WONGTHANANON	266.7
11	S. MANZI	266.7
12	O. BAYLISS	266.0
13	N. SPINELLI	266.0
14	R. DE ROSA	265.4
15	A. SARMOON	265.4
16	A. MANTOVANI	264.7
17	G. VAN STRAALEN	264.1
18	H. TRUELOVE	264.1
19	N. TUULI	264.1
20	J. MCPHEE	263.4
21	A. NORRODIN	262.1