If you're looking at the times from the Motorland Aragon circuit and wondering how come they're ten seconds slower than the MotoGP riders, it's because they're riding a different track layout. Where MotoGP runs a single long sweeper as the final corner, the World Superbike series races the configuration which includes the more finicky hairpin at the end of the back straight, which takes the riders back to the start and finish line. That short section adds 270 meters, but the hairpin is where they are losing all the time.
The conditions haven't helped either. While ambient temperatures are merely nicely warm (32°C) the track temperature is absolutely scorching, approaching 60°C under the burning Spanish sun, and with no shade around the circuit, there is little to cool the track.
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