{"id":704055,"date":"2026-05-30T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:01:08","slug":"bassani-pips-bulega-in-fp3-at-aragon-surra-completes-top-three-as-0-082s-separates-the-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704055\/","title":{"rendered":"Bassani pips Bulega in FP3 at Aragon, Surra completes top three as 0.082s separates the trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Axel Bassani (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) claimed top spot in Free Practice 3 for the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship after he set a 1\u201948.169s at MotorLand Aragon. He was just 0.049s clear of Championship leader Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) in second, while rookie Alberto Surra (Motocorsa Racing) completed the top three in the final practice session of the Aragon Round. Sam Lowes (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) didn\u2019t set a lap time in FP3 after he crashed at Turn 5 in the early stages of the 20-minute session.<\/p>\n<p>The top six from WorldSBK FP3, full results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbk.com\/en\/results\/2026\/ara\/sbk\/l3a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Axel Bassani (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) 1\u201948.169s<br \/>\nNicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) +0.049s<br \/>\nAlberto Surra (Motocorsa Racing) +0.082s<br \/>\nYari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team) +0.105s<br \/>\nIker Lecuona (Aruba.it Racing &#8211; Ducati) +0.121s<br \/>\nAlex Lowes (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) +0.186s<\/p>\n<p>Watch the high-octane Tissot Superpole session at 11:15 Local Time (UTC+2) using the <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.worldsbk.com\/en\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WorldSBK VideoPass \u2013 now 30% off!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Axel Bassani (bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team) claimed top spot in Free Practice 3 for the MOTUL FIM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,83],"class_list":["post-704055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}