Mixed conditions and results for the Australians

The Red Bull KTM star made a solid start to the Tissot Sprint but dropped back to 10th place before stepping off the bike late in the 13-lap race, fortunately without injury.

In Moto2™ qualifying, Senna Agius led Q1 from the early going and topped the first session with a 1m31.586s, advancing to Q2 with Dennis Foggia, Ayumu Sasaki and Barry Baltus.

In the second session, he just missed out on improving his time, but such was the pace of the front dozen, dropping down to 13th position.

Harrison Voight will start the race on the 24th, but the Moto2™ debutant managed to qualify ahead of his Preicanos teammate Jaume Masia, the reigning Moto3™ world champion.

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In Moto3™ qualifying the riders finally got to experience a dry Phillip Island circuit after three wet practice sessions, and Jacob Roulstone made the best of his home debut by topping Q1 with a time of 1m36.688s, to be one of the top four riders to advance from Q1 to Q2.

For the final minutes of that session it was looking like Joel Kelso would be on pole position, but right at the end David Muñoz used a tow to pip the Aussie by 0.124s, before fellow Spaniard Ivan Ortola sped around the track at the final moments of the session to seize pole. Collin Veier, Adrian Fernandez and Scott Ogden also improved, pushing Kelso all the way down to seventh. In the final tally Roulstone had to be satisfied with 13th place.

There were two seven-lap races in the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup for youngsters on Yamaha R7s. In the first race four bikes went into the last lap side by side, covered by 0.06s! Over the final lap Hunter Corney managed to sneak away to take victory by 0.39s, ahead of Rossi McAdam, Ethan Johnson and Nikolas Lazos.

In the later race the racing was just as fierce, Hunter Charlett taking the chocolates by 0.014s from Corney, Connor Lewis and Johnson.