Johnny Rea on the No.33 HRC Dream Honda still managed to crash heavily during the Group A second session, but was not seriously hurt.

Timed Free Practice

This afternoon has finished with timed free practice sessions for both groups.

In group A, the No.12 Yoshimura Suzuki (Sakai, Watanabe) banged in a stunningly quick 2:08.603 lap right at the start of the session, later bettering this with a 2:08.284. Second quickest was the No.34 Yoshimura Suzuki (Akiyoshi, Kagayama) on 2:09.499, with the No.33 Dream Honda (Rea, Takahashi, Teshima - 2:10.636)) third, Moriwaki (Yamahguchi, Crutchlow, O'Halloran - 2:11.028) fouth and the No.10 Sakurai Honda (Kameya, Haslam - 2:11.296) fifth.

Yoshimura Suzuki No.12

Bolliger Kawasaki were 14th with a time of 2:15.025, Yamaha Austria were 19th on 2:15.823, and Yamaha Moto38 were 26th on 2:16.908.

In group B, The No.11 Dream Honda (Kiyonari, Checa) took the early lead with a time of 2:09.046, before slipping into third place behind the Yamaha Racing R1 of Sato, Nakasuga and Takeda (2:08.320) and the No.2 FCC TSR of Tsujimura and Ito on 2:08.536. Fourth fastest was the No.6 FCC TSR of Iwata, Kikuchi and Matoba on 2:10.668, with SERT Suzuki in an excellent fifth place with a time of 2:11.179.

SERT Suzuki - 5th in Group B

Yamaha Phase One (2:16.534) were 22nd, Folch Yamaha (2:17.792) were 25th, QERT Suzuki (2:17.846) were 27th and Diablo Kawasaki (2:18.392) were 29th. The fastest Ducati today was the Babie's Racing de Light 1098R, 9th in group B with a time of 2:12.083.

Both sessions were interrupted by the safety car being called out; despite this being "free practice" the pressure is already on.

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