Davide Giugliano (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) moved to the top of the WorldSBK times after the opening day of on track action at the Portimao circuit and will head into FP3 tomorrow as the man to beat courtesy of his 1.43.323s lap set during the final 5 minutes of this afternoon’s second Free Practice session.

Behind Giugliano, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) who leads the overall championship standings by 101 points, also improved missing out on the fastest time of the day by 0.058s.

Winner of both races last time out Tom Sykes put the second factory Kawasaki into 3rd overall 0.273s behind as the top 12 riders were split by a second.

Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati SBK Team) overhauled his team mate Davide Giugliano to make it two Kawasaki and two Ducati riders in the top 4 with Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorrad Italia) and Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) 5^th and 6^th.

Sylvain Guintoli (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) continued to improve to head into tomorrow’s decisive FP3 in 7^th ahead of the Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils machine of Leon Haslam and the Pata Honda of Sylvain Guintoli completing the top eight.

Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing – Red Devils) was 9^th, Matteo Baiocco (Althea Racing) 10^th.

The other riders inside the top 15 and looking to make it into Superpole 2 automatically tomorrow are: Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Superbike Team), Leandro Mercado (Barni Racing), David Salom (Team Pedercini), Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) and Roman Ramos (Team Go Eleven)

To read the FP1 report please click here