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World Supersport's second race was eighteen laps of the Catalunya circuit with cooler weather than yesterday, 21ºC, and didn't start with the rain that the Superbike race ended with.

World Supersport race one, the temperature dropped by a couple of degrees, falling to 26ºC thanks to cloud cover. Yari Montella has as double long lap penalty from Assen to serve this race.

World Supersport qualifying culminated with the Superpole session and Lucas Mahias took part, replacing the injured Can Oncu.

In another Next Generation showing, championship leader Nicolo Bulega set the day's quickest time on his Ducati, ahead of Nikki Tuuli on the Triumph. Bahattin Sofuoglu's time this morning kept him in the top three overall, ending the day ahead of Federico Caricasulo and Stefano Manzi.

Results:

Bahattin Sofuoglu held off Stefano Manzi and Nicolo Bulega to claim the fastest time in the morning's session. Results:

A packed World Supersport grid was missing Oli Bayliss who was deemed unfit this morning, adding to his weekend's woes. The race would be eighteen laps at 16ºC with a 5mph wind.