French WorldSBK: Friday practice LIVE UPDATES!

Michael Ruben Rinaldi has a technical problem. He's off the bike and beside the track but does not seem to be in much of a hurry to get back to the pits.

Some possible problems for Razgatlioglu. His team are changing his fuel tank. He's heading out now, but a slightly disrupted start to the session for the #54.

Green light at the end of pit lane and we are go for FP2 in France. Everyone heading out pretty much immediately.

There is nothing much to be decided here in FP2; unlike in MotoGP practice does not count for any Q1/Q2 seeding, for example. But with Toprak Razgatlioglu able to lap consistently in the high-1:36s this morning there is a significant gap to close for the rest of the field if they are to challenge the Turkish rider this weekend.

The weather conditions have remained stable in France today. It's cloudier than this morning at Magny-Cours, but still dry ahead of FP2, which is just under 20 minutes away.

We're about 20 minutes out from WorldSBK FP2 in France, scheduled for 15:00 local time. Toprak Razgatlioglu led a BMW 1-2-3 this morning, ahead of Garrett Gerloff and Michael van der Mark.

French WorldSBK - FP1 Results

The flag is out in Magny-Cours now, and Gerloff almost improves again on his final lap, but it's Razgatlioglu who ends the morning fastest. A BMW 1-2-3, too, with van der Mark in third place.

Gerloff improves again, now to 0.353s off the pace of Razgatlioglu and into second.

Gerloff improves to fourth place, so it's a strong session for BMW so far in 1-2-4. Scott Redding in ninth, too, 1.192s off Razgatlioglu.

Although Razgatlioglu's gap on the timesheet has closed, his lap times on used tyres are continuing to be within 0.3-0.4s off his best time, so he's consistently lapping in times that would put him fastest of all.

Some better times coming in now. Bautista up to fourth, +0.768, and Michael van der Mark has made it a BMW 1-2, but 0.669s off his teammate.

Bulega improves again, 0.689s off Razgatlioglu now and over 0.2s clear of Lowes.

Axel Bassani sets a PB lap, but a 1:38.450 is over two seconds off Razgatlioglu, and over a second slower than his Kawasaki teammate, Lowes.

Bulega now up to second and within a second, 0.870s behind Razgatlioglu.

Fairly stagnant in the top positions at the moment, but Bautista has just improvedto third, 1.013s off the top.

Some riders heading back out now, and Alex Lowes has got himself within a second of Razgatlioglu, he's now 0.938s adrift in second place.

Almost everyone in pit lane now. 27 minutes remaining in the session.

Razgatlioglu in the pits now, and despite his 1.055s advantage he's complaining that in turn six he can't feel the engine braking.

Razgatlioglu faster again, a 1:36.347 puts him now over a second clear at the top, and it's now Garrett Gerloff in second, 1.055s off the pace.

Razgatlioglu increases his advantage to 0.832s over Rea, who is now the only rider within a second as Nicolo Bulega moves up to third.

Alex Lowes moves himself up to third place, 0.797s off the pace, though.

We're almost 10 minutes into FP1, and no surprise to see Toprak Razgatlioglu on top. His gap is 0.596 seconds at the moment over Jonathan Rea.

Big moment there for Alex Lowes at the penultimate turn, just lost the rear changing direction from the left-hand sweeper as he tipped into the tight penultimate right-hander.

There's no Dominique Aegerter this weekend, the Swiss having crashed during training last week. He's replaced at GRT Yamaha this weekend by Alessandri Delbianco, who has won a race in the CIV Superbike series earlier this year and has previous WorldSBK experience on a satellite Honda a few years ago.