Keen to follow the eventual polesitter, Scott Reddin💜g hopped onto the rear of the Kawasaki rider’s wheel to begin Superpole.

And it paid off as Redding narrowly pipped Rea to top spot before Alex Lowes 🥃went fastest by nearly half a second.

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Tom Sykes put in a stunning lap to go P3 ahead of Ra🅰zgatlioglu, before that became P4 when Bautista jumped up to P3. 

Rea improved on his second lap but it wasn’t enough to move him into the top five. Those who completed a second flying lap including Bautista failed to improve, while the likes of Razgatlioglu and Andrea Locatelli 🔯returned to pit lane. 

Following a quick tyre change, the factoဣry Yamaha duo exited pit lane as another Yamaha rider in Bradley Ray used his extensive track knowledge around Donington Park to challenge Lowes’ top time through the first two sectors. Ray’s lap ul💫timately faded as he came across the line in 13th.  

Razgatlioglu then set the fastest lap of the we✃ekend as he went close to three tenths clear of Lowes, who responded by going +0.012s off the 2021 🔴world champion.

A difficult weekend for Michael Ruben Rinaldi continued 𒁏as he crashed at the final cor🐷ner. 

The Italian was ab🅰le to get his bike restarted before making a swift return to pi🌟t lane. 

A new lap record was then set by Rea who put three tenths between♔ himself and Razgatlioglu, while Bautista moved up to second, one spot ahead of Danilo Petrucc♍i. 

While Rea abandoned his next lap Bautista and Petrucci continuꦺed on as they set red sector in the opening part of the lap.

Keeping his impressiv🐻e lap going, Bautista was on course for pole before crashing at turn eight.

The world champion ran into the gravel before coming ꦇto a slow fall when trying to remain upright.