Hannspree Stiggy Honda's Josh Brookes had overturned Broc Parkes' pole position to take an early lead over the Yamaha rider, while Broc's team-mat🥀e Foret initially lost ground from third on the grid.

But the former world champio😼n soon rebounded, passing Broo🐠kes for second position on lap five and then breezing past Parkes to take the lead at the halfway mark of the 16 laps.

Foret then rode to a confident 1.199secs victory over Brookes, with Parkes fad🍎ing to third, almost seven seconds behind the race winning R6.

Andrew Pitt spent much of the race at the head of a furious 💜five-man fight for fourth, a position the Australian just secured in front of Brookes' team-mate Robbin Harms, Craig Jones - riding withღ a fractured left hand - Massimo Roccoli and Matthieu Lagrive.

Pitt's Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team-mate Jonathan ﷽Rea retired with a technical problem early in the race, while fellow Britons Chris Walker and Graham Gowlᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚand were among several riders to fall at the first turn.

World championship leader Joan Lascorz, who had qualified just 16th, salvaged ninth position but is n💛ow just six points clear of Foret.

WSS race results - top 10:

1. Foret (Yamaha)
2. Brookes (Honda) +1.199secs
3. Parkes (Yamaha) +6.736secs
4. Pitt (Honda) +11.398secs
5. Harms (Honda) +11.477secs
6. Jones (Honda) +11.716secs
7. Roccoli (Yamaha) +11.757secs
8. Lagrive (Honda) +12.186secs
9. Lascorz (Honda) +14.847secs
10. Rodriguez (Yamaha) +15.175secs

20. Coghlan (Honda) +46.327secs

Walker (Kawasaki) DNF
Gowland (Honda) DNF
Rea (Honda) DNF