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The temperature hit 33ºC at the start of the nineteen lap race with the grid determined by lap times in yesterday's race.

The temperature continued to climb in Most, hitting over 30ºC, and the twenty two lap race would be missing Sam Lowes after his race one crash. This race would be the last of the first half of the season.

The day opened at a warm 26ºC and all penalties earned in qualifying served. Ten laps of Autodrom Most would give both points and grid places for race two this afternoon. Once again, hard tyres were used.

Before the nineteen lap race even started, Jorge Navarro crashed out at turn ten on the sighting lap, dragging his gravel-filled Ducati to the grid.

Czech jazz singer Jan Smigmator opened up the race with the Czech national anthem on the grid as one of the championship contenders was penalised by three spots on the grid before the twenty two lap race started. Hard tyres are the order of the weekend and race one opened at 29ºC.

After his setting a new lap record in this morning's final practice session, all eyes were on Toprak Razgatlioglu for World Superbike's Superpole qualifying. Tati Mercado and Hayden Gillim sat in for Adam Norrodin and Taz Mackenzie after crashes from the MIE duo at Donington.

Toprak Razgatlioglu set a new lap record of 1'30.719 in the last session before Superpole, over three quarters of a second quicker than the Ducati trio of Andrea Iannone, Alvaro Bautista and Nicolo Bulega. Andrea Locatelli was the only other rider within a second of Razgatlioglu's pace. 

Results:

While Adrian Huertas led throughout most of the session, Yari Montella took over at the end of the session with Stefano Manzi rounding out the front row for tomorrow's race. Valentin Debise continued exhibiting his good speed two tenths of a second off the front row, alongside Federico Caricasulo and Bahattin Sofuoglu.

Results:

A familiar trio topped the timing sheets, with Toprak Razgatlioglu leading Alvaro Bautista and Jonathan Rea at the end of the session  and the day.

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