Jakub Smrz and Max Biaggi, the first on a private Ducati and the second on an official Aprilia ended up posting the same idential laps times in the second provisional qualifying session at Portimao.
Smrz was the first to top the chart followed by Biaggi both with a lap of 1’43,003 and since the Ducati rider did his lap first, he’s on the provisional pole heading into this afternoon’s Superpole.
Michel Fabrizio, Leon Haslam, Jonathan Rea and Carlos Checa were 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th respectively and they were all separated by less than one tenth of second.
James Toseland took seventh and was three tenths from the top spot, while Xerox Ducati’s Noriyuki Haga took eighth.
Kawasaki’s lone rider after Chris Vermeulen’s withdral, Tom Sykes made a massive improvement and put his Ninja into 9th and Troy Croser closed the top ten.
Shane Byrne was in 11th, Sylvain Guintoli in 12th and Ruben Xaus who is slowly regaining his confidence on the BMW S1000RR took 13thCal Crutchlow and Leon Camier were 14th and 15th and Lorenzo Lanzi and Luca Scassa on private Ducati’s made it into the Supepole qualification with their 16th and 17th places.
Max Neukirchner qualified in 18th place and Reitwagen BMW’s Andrew Pitt and Roland Resch’s replacement Makoto Tamada, were the last two riders to qualify for the Superpole.
Out of Superpole are Sheridan Morais, Matteo Baiocco, Vittorio Iannuzzo and Roger Lee Hayden.
QP2 Lap times after the jump.
1 96 Smrz J.
(CZE) Ducati 1098R 1′43.
0032 3 Biaggi M.
(ITA) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
1′43.
0033 84 Fabrizio M.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′43.
0104 91 Haslam L.
(GBR) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1′43.
0375 65 Rea J.
(GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1′43.
0536 7 Checa C.
(ESP) Ducati 1098R 1′43.
1157 52 Toseland J.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′43.
3208 41 Haga N.
(JPN) Ducati 1098R 1′43.
4189 66 Sykes T.
(GBR) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′43.
48510 11 Corser T.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′43.
49111 67 Byrne S.
(GBR) Ducati 1098R 1′43.
58812 50 Guintoli S.
(FRA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1′43.
58913 111 Xaus R.
(ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1′43.
58914 35 Crutchlow C.
(GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1′43.
61615 2 Camier L.
(GBR) Aprilia RSV4 1000 F.
1′44.
03716 57 Lanzi L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′44.
21217 99 Scassa L.
(ITA) Ducati 1098R 1′44.
24918 76 Neukirchner M.
(GER) Honda CBR1000RR 1′44.
27219 88 Pitt A.
(AUS) BMW S1000 RR 1′44.
55320 49 Tamada M.
(JPN) BMW S1000 RR 1′45.
04421 32 Morais S.
(RSA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′45.
52022 15 Baiocco M.
(ITA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′45.
61023 31 Iannuzzo V.
(ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 1′45.
79524 95 Hayden R.
(USA) Kawasaki ZX 10R 1′45.
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