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The 2024 WorldSBK season culminated  at Jerez last weekend, which always means that the 2025 season is about to start. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the first preseason test for the coming season took place, marking the start of some big changes in the WorldSBK paddock. 

The last race of the year for World Supersport had Federico Caricasulo and Can Oncu starting a the front after recording fast laps yesterday.

In the last race of the season, Xavi Vierge has a long lap penalty to serve for his crash that injured Iker Lecuona in the Superpole race. 24ºC weather saw out the summer of racing with a weekend attendance of 41,735.  

The last day of racing this season opens with the Superpole race to determine the grid position for the last race. Everyone faces a 20ºC morning on the SCQ tyre, apart from Iker Lecuona.

Another title could be decided today, with World Supersport up for seventeen laps of 24ºC weather in Spain. Adrian Huertas is favourite to take the title over Stefano Manzi, needing just five points to secure the championship. Federico Caricasulo was sent to the back of the grid for a tyre pressure infringement.

First match point is now. A podium by Toprak Razgatlioglu will secure him his second title and BMW's first. There are many other permutations, he has to finish today thirty seven points ahead of Nicolo Bulega, but Razgatlioglu will be trying to win the race. Teams championships and manufacturer's titles could also be decided today, with Ducati in the favourite spot for both.

Fifteen minutes of the last Superpole qualifying session of the year would determine the positions for this afternoon's race where the championship can be decided. With two short six hundred metre straights, the 4.4km track promises lots of action from the twenty seven riders qualifying to race.

Garrett Gerloff opened Saturday ahead of Andrea Iannone and Iker Lecuona as most riders improved on their times from yesterday. Nicolo Bulega and Toprak Razgatlioglu head to Superpole with provisional second row places.

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With weather threatening the beginning of the World Supersport Superpole, riders set out to set a quick time before the weather turned, but it stayed decent enough for the last five minutes to be an exciting prospect.

Michael Ruben Rinaldi used a Q tyre to get the top time ahead of Nicolo Bulega and Danilo Petrucci in an all-Italian, all-Ducati top three. Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea were within three tenths of the quickest time. Razgatlioglu didn't improve on his morning's time. 

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