This Monday is the first of two days of testing for the Superbike World Championship in Portimão. There are several MotoGP riders on track with production bikes, and the leader is Toprak Razgatlioglu.
The Turkish rider, who will compete in WSBK with ROKiT BMW, set the fastest time so far with 1m40.690s on his eighth lap. He is 0.219s ahead of Andrea Locatelli (Pata Yamaha), followed by Jonathan Rea (Pata Yamaha) at 0.250s.
Considering only the best time of each rider, Nicolò Bulega (Aruba.it Ducati), who dominated the tests in Jerez last week, is fourth ahead of Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Motocorsa Racing/Ducati). Further down, two-time champion Álvaro Bautista (Aruba.it Ducati) is eighth.
Although this is a private test for WSBK, there are several MotoGP riders present, preparing on production bikes before the official tests in Sepang. Marc Márquez (Gresini/Ducati) is present but does not appear in the timing table – unlike Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini/Ducati), Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac/Ducati), Marco Bezzecchi (Pertamina Enduro VR46/Ducati), Luca Marini (Repsol Honda), and Enea Bastianini (Ducati). Of these, only Bagnaia and Di Giannantonio are in the top 30. Valentino Rossi is also present in this test, with a time of 1m46.233s ahead of Marini, Andrea Migno, Bastianini, and Alex Lowes’ time (Kawasaki) on his second bike.
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