Honda Racing’s Takumi Takahashi topped a weather-affected final free practice session for the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Snetterton on Saturday morning With light rain falling just as the session started, only a handful of riders ventured out on track initially, Ryan Vickers’ lap of 2’08.989s some 30s of Friday’s pace and highlighting the tricky conditions.
The FHO Racing BMW rider increased his pace to 2’07.537s, 1.5s quicker than Leon Haslam and those two, along with Leon Jeacock, Josh Owens and Dean Harrison were the only five riders to register a lap time in the first 15 minutes.
The second half of the session saw more riders take to the 2.99-mile circuit, but it was Vickers who continued to lead the way and with ten minutes to go, his lap of 2’05.641s put him almost a second quicker than Haslam with Takahashi, Lee Jackson, Tommy Bridewell and Storm Stacey rounding out the top six.
Jackson then went quickest with a lap of 2’05.461s, two tenths of a second quicker than Vickers, with Haslam and Takahashi closely following, less than half a second covering the top four.