250cc – Estoril FP2 – Simoncelli precedes Bautista

Marco Simoncelli's form continues and after having fought for the victory in Jerez de la Frontera until the last lap, he is also going strong in Estoril, scene of the third GP of the 2008 world championship season. In fact, after yesterday's provisional pole, the Gilera rider also set the best time in Free Practice 2 of the 250 class. Simoncelli stopped the clock at a time of 1'40"723, ahead of his team mates Alvaro Bautista and Hector by 243 thousandths. Barbera.

Excellent fourth time for Losail winner Mattia Pasini, the Team Polaris World rider is followed by Julian Simon's KTM, Alex Debon's Team Lotus Aprilia and the other KTM of Finn Mika Kallio. Eighth time went to the Swiss Thomas Luthi, behind him the Aprilia of Spaniard Hector Faubel, the KTM of Hiroshi Aoyama, the Gilera of Roberto Locatelli from Bergamo and the Aprilias of Espargaro and Pesek. The returning Manuel Poggiali is fourteenth with a time of 1'42"809, the Milanese Fabrizio Lai is sixteenth, Alex Baldolini is nineteenth and Federico Sandi twentieth.