The 1.5-hour night Free Practice session concluded the Wednesday action at the inaugural Sepang 8 Hours EWC event.

After dry private testing from 9am-4pm, rain arrived in opening Free Practice from 4:30pm-6:30pm and the track remained damp for the following night session.

Qualifying takes place on Thursday, with the race - the second round of the 2019/2020 FIM Endurance World Championship - starting at 1pm on Saturday.

The opening round, September's Bol d'Or, was won by the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team while SRC Kawasaki France are the reigning EWC title holders.

MotoGP's Franco Morbidelli is competing for the home Sepang team, alongside fellow grand prix rider and local hero Hafizh Syahrin plus WorldSBK star Michael van der Mark. The squad are using factory bikes prepared by YART and fitted with Bridgestone tyres. This evening was Morbidelli's first experience of EWC-style night riding...

The fastest times of the day were all set in the private test - CLICK HERE for the full results ...

Sepang 8 Hours - Free Practice (Night) Pos Riders (Team) Time/Gap 1 Zaidi/Izdihar/Chantra (Honda Asia-Dream Racing with SHOWA) 2m 12.359s 2 Guarnoni/Nigon/Checa (WEBIKE SRC KAWASAKI FRANCE) +0.390s 3 Rea/Bergman/Maurin (Wójcik Racing Team) +1.189s 4 Alt/Marino/Simeon (VRD IGOL PIERRET EXPERIENCES) +1.761s 5 Philippe/Masson/Black (Suzuki Endurance Racing Team) +2.426s 6 Morbidelli/Syahrin/Van Der Mark (Yamaha Sepang Racing) +3.328s 7 Sekiguchi/Sakai/Nagoe (TEAM PLUSONE) +3.419s 8 Kamaruzaman/Norrodin/Da Costa (BMW Sepang Racing) +4.393s 9 Boulom/Gamarino/Manfredi (Team 33 Coyote Louit Moto) +4.740s 10 Ježek/De Puniet/Rossi (Team ERC Endurance) +5.141s 11 Hook/Foray/Di Meglio (F.C.C. TSR Honda France) +5.181s 12 Kodama/Tokudome/ (Team Kodama) +5.375s 13 Yanagawa/Ito/Izutsu (KRP SANYOKOUGYOU & will raise RS-ITOH) +5.642s 14 Parkes/Fritz/Canepa (YART - YAMAHA) +5.891s 15 Stamm/Suchet/Walraven (Bolliger Team Switzerland) +6.303s 16 Hoshino/Atsumi/Ishizuka (TONE RT SYNCEDGE 4413 BMW) +6.794s 17 Leblanc/Uramoto/Tsuda (SUZUKI JEG - KAGAYAMA) +6.925s 18 Vincon/Bühn/Lewandowski (Team LRP Poland) +6.933s 19 Dehaye/Ströhlein/Ortiz (Motobox Kremer Racing #65) +7.000s 20 Scassa/Kemmer/Vitali (No Limits Motor Team) +7.058s 21 Thöni/Dangl/Walchhütter (Bertl K. Racing Team) +7.064s 22 Rolfo/Mulhauser/Clere (MOTO AIN) +7.370s 23 Hedelin/Masbou/Perret (TECMAS BMW GMC) +7.488s 24 Szkopek/Ellison/Hanika (MACO RACING Team) +7.623s 25 Fukuyama/Yoshida/Okuda (T.MOTOKIDS icu Takada I.W NAC SANYO) +8.304s 26 Stoll/Sarrabayrouse/Buisson (AM Moto Racing Competition) +8.739s 27 Techer/Denis/Enjolras (TATI TEAM BEAUJOLAIS RACING) +8.998s 28 Debise/Okubo/ (National Motos) +9.037s 29 Badrul Hisam/Mhd Azmi/Ahmad Shamsul (PACHI HKM SPEED RACING) +9.339s 30 Baggi/Boscoscuro/Rosso (Team Aviobike) +9.439s 31 Loiseau/Hardt/Pilot (BMRT 3D MAXXESS NEVERS) +9.455s 32 Ooishi/Hirano/Krishnan (TransMapRacing with ACE CAFE) +9.669s 33 Antiga/Tessels/Bonnot (Rac 41) +9.965s 34 Mykhalchyk/Reiterberger/Foray (BMW MOTORRAD WORLD ENDURANCE TEAM) +10.314s 35 Fastré/Buchner/Godfrey (MOTOTECH EWC TEAM) +10.426s 36 Sugai/Byrne/Burke (TEAM SUGAI RACING JAPAN) +10.449s 37 Westmoreland/Linfoot/Nigon (MOTORS EVENTS) +10.498s 38 Nekvasil/Bos/Friedrich (HRT 100 - Hertrampf Racing Endurance) +10.578s 39 Pellizotti/Granzottto/De La Rosa (PITLANE ENDURANCE) +10.612s 40 Kerschbaumer/Glöckner/Bijsterbosch (GERT56 by GS YUASA) +11.563s 41 Szkopek/Pasek/Biesiekirski (Wójcik Racing Team 2) +12.207s 42 Charpin/Diguet/Hugot (OG MOTORSPORT BY SARAZIN) +12.574s 43 Lussiana/Berchet/Plancassagne (3ART- MOTO TEAM 95) +12.622s 44 Napoli/Napoli/Pešek (ENERGIE ENDURANCE 91) +12.931s 45 Konno/Seller/Morais (Team R2CL) +13.731s 46 Sano/Okamura/Higashimura (TEAM HANSHIN RIDING SCHOOL) +14.512s 47 Railton/Blackshaw/Edwards (British Endurance Racing Team) +15.702s 48 Cronier/Cornut/Gucciardi (JMA MOTOS ACTION BIKE) +16.065s 49 Creusot/Wang Chang/Parret (TEAM 202) +21.233s 50 Shinjo/Nakamura/Matsumoto (Yamashina Kawasaki KEN Racing & Auto Race UBE) +1m 51.770ss

Fastest Wednesday Time:

FCC TSR Honda 2m 5.796s (Private Testing)

