After battling throughout day-one for top spot, Garrett Gerloff and Bautis♉ta renewed their fight to see who would finဣish the Misano WorldSBK test fastest, but not before impressive rookie Oettl topped the opening session. 

Fifth fastest on day-one, Oettl immediately imp𝔍roved his lap time by o𝓀ver seven tenths as he set a 1:34.214s. 

Gerloff was a fꦛurther tenth of a second back in second, while Scott Redding enjoyed a much better start to day-two - the new BMW rider was only tenth out of 12 riders come the end of Wednesday’s running. 

Oettl, who will be competing on a revised Paniglae V4-R in 2022, spent a significant portion of the day working o꧋n GoEleven Ducati’s new fork, brake cal🦩liper and exhaust. 

The last WorldSBK rider to hit the Misano track was day-one🎶 pacesetter Bautista. How෴ever, it didn’t take the Spaniard long to find his rhythm as he went quickest with a first sub 1m 34s lap of the day just after lunch. 

Bautista then went even quicker to post a time of 1:33.722s, which was the best lap time of ꧋the test until Gerloff bette𒈔red the Ducati rider with a 1:33.686s.

The top three of Gerloff, Bautista and Oettl remained intact until the final hour when Lucas Mahias went from fifth🌟 to third. 

Moments before the Puccetti Kawasaki rider set a time of 1:34.058s, Bautista went back to the top of the leaderboard, a position༒ he retained until the close of play. 

Sixth fastest was Michael Rinaldi as the Italian finished closeꦯ to eight tenths behind team-mate🅺 Bautista. 

After missing a private Aruba.it Ducati-organised test in Jerez last December ꧋due to injury, Rinaldi got his first taste of the team’s new swingarm that Bautista tried during the Spanish outing. 

After a solid morning which saw Bonovo Action BMW🥀 rider Eugene Laverty climb as high as P3 on the timingsheets, the Irish rider e🤡ventually dropped to P7 - finishing less than half a tenth behind factory rider Redding. 

A similar ma𒁏rgin split Laverty and team-mate Loris Baz as the formerℱ Kawasaki and Yamaha rider was +0.036s back. 

Speaking after day-one, Redding highlighted the change from a V4 to an inline-f🐬our engine as the biggest hurdle to overcome tꦆhis season, while saying under-revving was a problem until this week’s Misano test.

Redding told WorlℱdSBK.com: "The first impression of the BMW team was great. I’m a happy rider so far. My adaptation to the BMW was a b🐎it different to what I expected. 

"I’m a rider that can ride anything anywhere, anytim♚e. But it was a lit🐼tle bit more difficult I must say. 

"I’ve spent so many years on🥃 a V4 that the changeover was difficult; not actually riding the bike, b🔯ut me feeling comfortable with the style of the engine revving, the way I need to take corners. 

"Adapting to the inline-four was the most difficult thing for me because I felt like I was going to blow up the engine [laughs].&ওnbsp;

"The guys were like ‘you need to rev it and I was like I am, I am’♏. 

"That was difficult for me but since I’ve come back I’m revving it like it needs to be. Th♈e riding and cornering is not so different."