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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.

Indonesia did what Indonesia does and the wind brought the rain fifteen minutes before the World Supersport race. Riders had to judge what the weather would do over the eighteen laps and pick their tyres accordingly. Riders chose to start with slick tyres.

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

World Supersport qualifying culminated in twenty minutes of Superpole qualifying on an improving surface and a new lap record.

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.

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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:

With the track coming into its own, dust and rubber settled and lap times over three seconds quicker than the morning's session, Nicolo Bulega once again set the fastest pace but was joined by Can Oncu, Nikki Tuuli and Marcel Schroetter within a tenth of a second of his quicker time. 

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