The opening WorldSBK Superpole session of 2024 was frantic as every rider headꦚed out of pit lane immediately.

Like FP2, Alex Lowes w𝓡as the early pacesetter as he set a new lap record aboard his K♎awasaki machine.

• Al🌃ex Lowes: “We can maybe have a more aggressive setting on the bi🎶ke” 
• 🐭Toprak Razgatlioglu: ‘I worked for the race as I need to see who I’ll be fighting’

But while 🌞world champion𓃲 Alvaro Bautista struggled for pace, rookie team-mate Nicolo Bulega soon put his Ducati one pole.

The timingsheets were ♑being lit up by severa𒁃l riders, including Andrea Iannone who secured a front row start in his first-ever WorldSBK qualifying.

However, no one could challenge Bul✤ega who became the first WorldSBK rider ever to dip below th꧑e 1m 28s barrier.

Behind the two rookies came Lowes, with three tenths separating the Kawasaki rider an🅷d Bulega.

Further back, Toprak Razgatlioglu could only manage fifth in his first qualifying as a BMW ri🌠der, while Bautista finished ninth, two places ahead of a struggling Jonathan Rea.