Reigning World Superbike Champion Tom Sykes remained the quickest rider on day two of World Superbike testing at Portimao thanks to his 1’42.719s lap time set this morning. The reigning champion and his teammate Loris Baz mainly focused on fine-tuning their ZX-10R as both rider had no new items to test, unlike KRT Evo peer David Salom who tried out new parts developed for what will be next year’s Kawasaki machine.

Aprilia Racing Team’s Marco Melandri and Sylvain Guintoli had the chance to evaluate a range of things that were left to be tested from earlier on in the season, but their on track duties were affected by crashes, fortunately with no major injuries. Guintoli’s test was brought to an early end today in the final minutes of the morning’s session, as the rear of his RSV4 Factory came around throwing him to the ground.

The Ducati Superbike Team concentrated their efforts on practicing starts with both Davide Giugliano and Chaz Davies, also testing previously developed solutions that the team could not try out during the racing weekends completed so far.

After missing the last round at Laguna Seca due to the injuries sustained one week before at Portimao, Claudio Corti (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) proved to be back on form by lapping the Portuguese track 93 times over the course of the two days.

Portimao WSBK test day two - conditions dry

1 1 T. SYKES GBR Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'42.719 1'43.665 1'42.719 160,936 22

2 50 S. GUINTOLI FRA Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'42.954 1'42.954 0.235 0.235 160,569 40

3 76 L. BAZ FRA Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'43.294 1'43.110 1'43.110 0.391 0.156 160,326 55

4 33 M. MELANDRI ITA Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'43.315 1'43.646 1'43.315 0.596 0.205 160,008 95

5 34 D. GIUGLIANO ITA Ducati Superbike Team Ducati 1199 Panigale R 1'43.592 1'44.022 1'43.592 0.873 0.277 159,580 47

6 7 C. DAVIES GBR Ducati Superbike Team Ducati 1199 Panigale R 1'43.742 1'44.347 1'43.742 1.023 0.150 159,349 53

7 71 C. CORTI ITA MV Agusta Reparto Corse MV Agusta F4 RR 1'44.485 1'47.296 1'44.485 1.766 0.743 158,216 52

8 44 D. SALOM ESP Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki ZX-10R EVO 1'44.487 1'45.193 1'44.487 1.768 0.002 158,213 55

9 21 A. ANDREOZZI ITA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R EVO 1'44.924 1'46.956 1'44.924 2.205 0.437 157,554 63

10 11 J. GUARNONI FRA MRS Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R EVO 1'45.109 1'45.727 1'45.109 2.390 0.185 157,277 61