BMW's Leon Haslam was left frustrated at the end of what had been a promising World Superbike weekend at Portimao where he could only muster one 19th-place finish after a wrong tyre choice and bike malfunction put paid to any sign of good result.

In the tricky conditions of race one, Haslam elected to run an intermediate tyre hoping the track would dry quicky. It didn't and after a re-flag, the Derbsyhire man jumped the re-start and got a ride-through. Race two saw an 'electrical' problem put paid to a finish.

“All weekend we felt so confident with the slick tyre and the race set-up and today it rained. Normally I like the rain, but today it was difficult. For race one I thought that it would dry up and we chose the intermediate rear tyre which was a bit of a gamble. But it did not dry up before the race was red flagged. As before the restart the track still had not dried much so we decided to go with the same as all the other guys, but I made a jump start," said Halam.

"Even before I had the ride through I had an issue with the bike in the wet so after I entered the pit lane twice the race was done for me. In race two we didn’t get the best start but the race pace was not so fast. It was more than two seconds slower than what I did yesterday on the same tyres. In addition we had a technical issue; it was nobody’s fault, but it was me again who had the bad luck. This is very frustrating.”