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World Superbike race two would be missing Loris Baz as his leg and ankle were fractured in the contact made between him and Alex Lowes this morning. Aegerter had to drop one position due to irresponsible racing in an incident with Danilo Petrucci at the end of this morning's race. Remy Gardner weathered his gastroenteritis to make the start. The weather remained at 30ºC after overnight rain and red flags played a part in the tyre allocation.

The World Superbike Superpole race would be ten windy laps of the Mandalika circuit with clouds holding back the 30ºC sun and threatening rain. A red flag and several incidents made for an exciting race.

World Superbike race one was dirty and hot, and the factory Ducatis and Hondas lined up with SCX soft tyres. Remy Gardner and Eric Granado both suffered from acute gastroenteritis and missed the race.

World Superbike qualifying was a little confusing when it played out as a yellow flag made the final results uncertain for a while.

Alvaro Bautista set the quickest time with Toprak Razgatlioglu and Axel Bassani by less than a tenth of a second. Remy Gardner was ruled out of Saturday's qualifying and race due to a bout of gastroenteritis. Jonathan Rea could do no better than thirteenth quickest in the hot and humid conditions.

Results:

Michael Ruben Rinaldi held off his teammate Alvaro Bautista as he went two seconds quicker than the morning's session. Toprak Razgatlioglu was within two tenths of a second with Jonathan Rea fourth quickest. 

Results:

Michael Ruben Rinaldi was quickest in spite of being among the sessions many crashers. A quarter of a second covered the top five riders.

Results:

In the final race of the weekend, after investigation of his crash with Dominique Aegerter in the morning's sprint race, Remy Gardner would earn himself a long lap penalty for irresponsible riding. The long lap loop is at Miller Corner. The temperature was up on this morning and a warm and dry twenty two laps would determine the results. Everyone had the same tyres.

World Superbike's fastest sprint of the year was dry but with the traditional Phillip Island wind. Ten laps would determine the grid position for this afternoon's race and everyone was on the same soft tyres.

World Superbike's first race of the year was wet. Very wet. Twenty two wet laps with two sighting laps.