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With the WorldSBK season due to kick off next weekend, the teams and riders get one last chance to prepare for 2020, with testing taking place on Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the test did not run entirely smoothly, Phillip Island's notorious winds and brief showers chasing riders on and off track, with a smattering of red flags thrown into the mix.
Toprak Razgatlioglu leads the way after the end of the first day, the Pata Yamaha rider just a fraction faster than Tom Sykes on the BMW in second and Loris Baz on the Ten Kate Yamaha in third. Less than four hundredths separates the top three.
Returning champion Jonathan Rea ended the first day in fourth place on the Kawasaki, a quarter of a second ahead of former teammate Leon Haslam on the brand new Honda CBR1000RR-R. Haslam, in turn, was four hundredths faster than Aruba Ducati rider Scott Redding. The field was close, the first nine riders within a second.
Testing concludes on Tuesday.
Combined times from Monday:
| Pos | No | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff | Prev |
| 1 | 54 | Toprak Razgatlioglu | Yamaha YZF R1 | 1:30.740 | ||
| 2 | 66 | Tom Sykes | BMW S1000 RR | 1:30.762 | 0.022 | 0.022 |
| 3 | 76 | Loris Baz | Yamaha YZF R1 | 1:30.777 | 0.037 | 0.015 |
| 4 | 1 | Jonathan Rea | Kawasaki ZX-10RR | 1:30.996 | 0.256 | 0.219 |
| 5 | 91 | Leon Haslam | Honda CBR1000RR | 1:31.196 | 0.456 | 0.200 |
| 6 | 45 | Scott Redding | Ducati Panigale V4 R | 1:31.236 | 0.496 | 0.040 |
| 7 | 60 | Michael van der Mark | Yamaha YZF R1 | 1:31.252 | 0.512 | 0.016 |
| 8 | 50 | Eugene Laverty | BMW S1000 RR | 1:31.585 | 0.845 | 0.333 |
| 9 | 22 | Alex Lowes | Kawasaki ZX-10RR | 1:31.665 | 0.925 | 0.080 |
| 10 | 7 | Chaz Davies | Ducati Panigale V4 R | 1:32.113 | 1.373 | 0.448 |
| 11 | 11 | Sandro Cortese | Kawasaki ZX-10RR | 1:32.264 | 1.524 | 0.151 |
| 12 | 21 | Michael Ruben Rinaldi | Ducati Panigale V4 R | 1:32.272 | 1.532 | 0.008 |
| 13 | 12 | Xavi Fores | Kawasaki ZX-10RR | 1:32.414 | 1.674 | 0.142 |
| 14 | 77 | Maximilan Scheib | Kawasaki ZX-10RR | 1:32.498 | 1.758 | 0.084 |
| 15 | 19 | Alvaro Bautista | Honda CBR1000RR | 1:32.541 | 1.801 | 0.043 |
| 16 | 64 | Federico Caricasulo | Yamaha YZF R1 | 1:32.706 | 1.966 | 0.165 |
| 17 | 31 | Garrett Gerloff | Yamaha YZF R1 | 1:32.829 | 2.089 | 0.123 |
| 18 | 2 | Leon Camier | Ducati Panigale V4 R | 1:33.629 | 2.889 | 0.800 |
| 19 | 13 | Takumi Takahashi | Honda CBR1000RR | 1:36.346 | 5.606 | 2.717 |
