Nicolo Bulega continued his formidable streak by selecting up a ninth Superpole of the season on the French WorldSBK spherical.
Bulega was challenged by team-mate Iker Lecuona and MarcVDS’ Sam Lowes all through the 15 minute session, however finally prevailed to proceed his unbeaten qualifying file in 2026.
On his first flying lap across the circuit, Bulega set a 1:34.900s to interrupt the prevailing lap file, which lasted momentarily after Lecuona set a blistering 1:34.676s.
The 2 Ducati riders had been by far and away the quickest two riders on the circuit, with Lecuona beating his personal file earlier than Bulega appeared to reply.
The championship chief then set an unbeatable 1:34.318s to say the pole place for Race 1 and Superpole Race at Magny-Cours.
Sam Lowes put in an exceptional remaining try to maneuver into second place, along with his 1:34.486s just below two seconds off Bulega’s greatest time.
Lecuona was demoted late by the spectacular tempo of Lowes, however retained his place on the entrance row in third.
Yari Montella took the chequered flag in fourth, whereas Alberto Surra accomplished the all-Ducati high 5.
Alex Lowes was the very best non-Ducati machine in sixth place, as Tommy Bridewell suffered a late crash to take seventh on the observe regardless of his demotion to the again of the grid for a penalty.
Lorenzo Baldassarri additionally crashed within the remaining minute of the session however completed eighth forward of Xavi Vierge in ninth and a season’s greatest efficiency for Honda’s Jake Dixon rounded out the highest 10.
Andrea Locatelli completed eleventh and simply 0.020s behind Yamaha team-mate Vierge, whereas Garrett Gerloff was twelfth and Remy Gardner thirteenth.
Alvaro Bautista accomplished qualifying down in 14th with Stefano Manzi in fifteenth and Somkiat Chantra taking sixteenth.
Axel Bassani had an uncharacteristically tough qualifying session in seventeenth, whereas the BMWs additionally struggled as Danilo Petrucci took 18th and Miguel Oliveira nineteenth.
Rookie Mattia Rato accomplished the standings in twentieth after his team-mate Bahattin Sofuoglu was dominated out of the weekend as a consequence of a crash in Friday’s opening observe session.