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In the opening World Supersport race, a mandatory pit-stop will be required in the race and no tyre is allowed to do more than ten laps of the sixteen lap race. Riders can pit in whenever they want in the flag-to-flag event.
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World Superbike has a new race format including the ten lap sprint race to determine the first three rows of the grid for race two, the Tissot Superpole Race. The winner gets 12 points, but the race win isn't added to the record books. Pirelli have supplied a short race tyre that should last ten laps of every circuit on the calendar. As this is the first time this has been done, all bets are off on what will happen.
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WorldSBK standings after the first race of the season at Phillip Island:
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Press releases from the organizers and some of the teams after qualifying and the first race of the 2019 WorldSBK season at Phillip Island:
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The first World Superbike race of the season in Australia may be considered a test with points, taking part over a month before first European round in Spain, but that doesn't mean it can't give us entertainment.
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Superpole for World Supersport has, like World Superbike qualifying, switched to a single twenty-five minute session
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Randy Krummenacher ended qualifying on top, with a lead of over three tenths of a second. Federico Caricasulo and Jules Cluzel were the only riders within four tenths of Krummenacher's quickest time, but none of the top eight riders were quicker than their times yesterday.
Results:
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Alvaro Bautista set an early 1'29 lap and then sliced another tenth off it it to get within under three tenths of a second of Jonathan Rea's pole record from 2017. Leon Haslam and Jonathan Rea made up the rest of the provisional front row, with Alex Lowes and Eugene Laverty pushing Tom Sykes down to sixth quickest.
Superpole will be a single session later today determining the positions for race one while race two's grid will be determined by a short sprint race on Sunday morning.
Results:
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Press releases from the first day of world championship racing of 2019, issued by the organizers and some of the teams after Friday at the WorldSBK round in Australia:
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Jules Cluzel headed a trio of Yamahas at the top, ahead of Federico Caricasulo and Randy Krummenacher. Lucas Mahias was third quickest on the Kawasaki, leading a pair of MV Agustas in the form of Raffaele De Rosa and Federico Fuligni.
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