Scott Redding set a blistering pace at theꦫ end of WorldSBK FP3 at Magny-Cours to take top spot from Toprak Razgatlioglu. 

Alex Lowes was 🔯the rider with the early pace before team-mate Jonathan Rea went quickest with the best lap of the weekend. 

But with nine minutes remaining, championship leader Razgatlioglu moved to the top with a first sub 1m 37s lap.&nbsဣp;

The Yamaha rider🌠 then improved his lap again by just under a tenth - put him four tenths clear of Rea in second. 

Rea did manage to redꩵuce Razgatlioglu’s advantag🦩e to just over a tenth, before Redding set a stunning 1:36.393s - nearly three tenths faster than Razgatlioglu. 

There was a bizarre incident between GRT Yamaha riders Garrett Gerloff and Kohta Nozane as their bikes 🥃were lying on-track together. Both riders were ok and remounted before heading down pit lane.

Not for the first time this year, Michael Van Der Mark was reduced to watching the action f💯rom his pit box following issues with his M 1000 RR m🙈achine. 

Free Practice Two

Wor﷽ld Superbike championship leader Toprak Razgat♏lioglu dominated FP2 at Magny-Cours. 

After a slig🧔ht delay to FP2 because of track conditions being affected in the WorldSSP300 s🎶ession, it was Chaz Davies who set the pace. 

The GoEleven Ducati rider built on his impressive𓃲 final ten minutes of FP1 in which he finished sixth, while MIchael Van Der Mark did the same in third. Separating the Ducati and BMW riders early on was Kawasaki’s Alex Lowes.&nb♛sp; 

The front three remained the same for over half the session befoওre Razgatlioglu went to the top by just under two tenths. 

Razgatlioglu's top time began a consistent run of laps that all would have been good enough for the top three, before further imp✨roving his time by 0.011s. 

After Tom Sykes momentarily went second fastest, Davies th💜en regained second with a lap just 0.014s slower than the Yamaha rider, while Scott Redding moved up to sixth - on ཧspot behind Jonathan Rea. 

Koha Nozane🍨 suffered a crash late on while Van Der Mark encountered a mechanical issue aboard his BMW M 1000 RR. 

Razgatlioglu reinforced his advantage at the top once the time attacks started, while Rea went second - three tenths slower than his main title rival. Redding then split the pair with his fin𝕴al lap to 🤪finish second overall.

Free Practice One

Jonathan Rea topped the opening WorldSBK practice session at Magny🦩-Cours ahead of Michael Van Der Mark and Alex Lowes. 

While a mostly dry weekend at Magny-Cours has been forecasted, riders chose to stay inౠ pit lane early on as overnight rain dampened the track surface. 

Three of those riders included championship contenders Toprak Razgatlioglu, Reaℱ and Scott Redding. 

Kohta Nozane was one of the first to venture out alongside Barni Ducati rider Tit✅o Rabat. 

Short of running at the French circuit in recent s🦂easons, Honda pairing Alvaro Bautista and Leon Haslam were others to test out the con♈ditions. 

Afte🐬r setting the fasteꦦst lap of the four runners, Bautista returned to pit lane along with Nozane, while team-mate Haslam and Rabat continued on. 

It wasn’t until 20 minut🅺es to go until that the action began to pick up courtesy of Andrea Locatelli. The Italian was soon followed by championship leader Razgatlioglu and Aruba.it Ducati duo Redding and Michael Rinaldi. 

With under ten minutes to go eve🌼ry rider was out on track and setting personal best lap times th♔rough to the checkered flag. 

Redཧding was the man at the top for most of it, before being bettered by Razgatlioglu, Lowes, Van Der Mark and🐼 Rea in the final minute.