2023 Portimao World Superbike - Friday Practice Results

There was nearly a big accident at the beginning of FP2 as Garrett Gerloff felt he was impeded by Gabriele Ruir before Lorenzo Baldassarri clattered into the American at turn 14. 

Despite many red sectors, Danilo Petrucci’s top time was proving tough to beat until Alvaro Bautista did just that with a time of 1:41.068s.

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Tito Rabat became the first rider to suffer a crash in FP2 as the former MotoGP rider went down at turn three. 

Continuing to get faster and faster, Bautista improved by another two tenths deep into his first stint. 

Bautista’s latest effort put him six tenths clear of Jonathan Rea in what was turning out to be a dominant showing from the world champion.

With FP2 drawing to a close Michael Rinaldi jumped up to second spot but was unable to get within half a second of Bautista, with the Spaniard still the only rider capable of lapping in the 1m 40s barrier. 

That soon changed however, when Rinaldi reduced Bautista’s advantage to just over three tenths. The Aragon race 1 winner set a time of 1:40.827s.

Portimao World Superbike Records

Fastest lap - Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki Racing Team 1:39.610s

2022 Race Winners

Race 1 - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha

Superpole Race - Toprak Razgatlioglu TUR Pata Yamaha 

Race 2 - Alvaro Bautista SPA Aruba.it Ducati

After missing the Aragon round, Alex Lowes made his return to action for the factory Kawasaki team.

Free Practice 1 Results

Portimao weekend schedule (UK time)

Friday 

Free Practice 1 - 10:30am

Free Practice 2 - 15:00pm

Saturday 

Free Practice 3 - 09:00am

Superpole - 10:10am

Race 1 - 14:00pm

Sunday 

Warm-up - 09:00am

Superpole Race - 11:00am 

Race 2 - 14:00pm