Superbike: Tom Sykes is the fastest in the Portimao Warm Up

For Tom Sykes today could be an important day: his teammate Jonathan Rea will in fact start from eighth position on the grid due to the crash in qualifying and he, who instead will start immediately behind Giugliano, could take advantage of this to try to recover something in the rankings.

That he perhaps has the best race pace of all is also demonstrated by the best time set in this morning's Warm Up, but with second place Rea makes it clear that a comeback is not impossible for him and with this Ninja anything can happen.

Jordi Torres after yesterday's bad qualifying, the qualifying tire is now becoming a nightmare for him, he wants to do well in the race: the pace is there, the speed and the feeling with the track as well, given that we find him immediately behind the Kawasaki couple.
Fourth time for teammate Leon Haslam, not yet 100% but cannot therefore be excluded a priori from the fight for the podium, as Rea rightly said on Friday.
In fifth and sixth position we find the Panigales of Chaz Davies and Davide Giugliano who worked more on the set-up for the race than on the search for the pure time trial.

Curiously this morning in the different teams the times traveled "in pairs": with the seventh and eighth time readings we find two other teammates, Sylvain Guintoli and Michael van der Mark with the CBR Pata Hondas.

Completing the top-10 are Alex Lowes, who unlike Torres seems to be more comfortable with qualifying tires given the two good Tissot-Superpole heats held yesterday, and Leandro Mercado for the Barni Racing team.

Appointment at 11:30 live on Italia 1 and Italia 2 with the start of Race 1.

Below are the times recorded in the Warm Up:

1. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 42.676s
2. Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 43.002s
3. Jordi Torres ESP Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 1m 43.269s
4. Leon Haslam GBR Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 1m 43.283s
5. Chaz Davies GBR Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 43.395s
6. Davide Giugliano ITA Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 43.408s
7. Sylvain Guintoli FRA PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 43.588s
8. Michael van der Mark NED PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 43.786s
9. Alex Lowes GBR Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 43.981s
10. Leandro Mercado ARG Barni Ducati 1199R 1m 43.985s
11. David Salom ESP Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 44.012s
12. Ayrton Badovini ITA BMW Italia S1000RR 1m 44.179s
13. Matteo Baiocco ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 44.613s
14. Leon Camier GBR MV Agusta F4 RR 1m 44.800s
15. Roman Ramos ESP GO Eleven Kawasaki ZX-10R1m 45.098s
16. Nico Terol ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 45.370s
17. Santiago Barragan ESP Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 45.895s
18. Niccolo Canepa ITA Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 46.084s
19. Randy de Puniet FRA Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 46.211s
20. Christophe Ponsson FRA Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 46.745s
21. Gabor Rizmayer HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 48.427s
22. Imre Toth HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 50.160s