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After the first day of MotoGP testing at the Circuito de Jerez saw Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera top the MotoGP timesheets, Alvaro Bautista (Pull&Bear Aspar Team) hit back on day two to go fastest ahead of Avintia duo Loris Baz and Barbera.

With many WorldSBK teams also sharing the test day, it was Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team who topped the overall timesheets, after splitting the Avintias on Wednesday in P2, with Aruba.it Racing – Ducati’s Chaz Davies also impressing in third overall.

Bautista completed 71 laps with a best of 1m38.946s on his final attempt as he settles into life on the Ducati Desmosedici, with Baz completing some fewer but only a couple of tenths off the Spaniard’s best lap of the day.

Barbera, riding the 2016 Ducati as Baz mans the 2015, was another three tenths behind his teammate. Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) and Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) completed the top five of the GP machines, with Petrucci trying his 2017 Desmosedici for the first time in Jerez following his absence from the Valencia test.

Bautista’s teammate Karel Abraham (Pull&Bear Aspar Team), Ducati Team test rider Michele Pirro, Octo Pramac Yakhnich rider Scott Redding, Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS rider Jack Miller – testing for HRC – and Red Bull KTM Factory Racing test rider Mika Kallio completed the MotoGP top 10.

MotoGP rookie Sam Lowes, moving up with Aprilia Racing Team Gresini, managed more laps as he continues to recover from a crash at the Valencia test – and a further, minor fall on day one in Jerez – and did 20 laps on day two.

Absent from the test are Movistar Yamaha MotoGP and Monster Yamaha Tech 3, who have instead tested at Sepang International Circuit for two days – and have just concluded activity for 2016.