Portimao WSBK: Razgatlioglu snatches pole from Rea
Razgatlioglu, who holds a 20-point championship lead with three rounds to head, broke the lap file around the Portuguese note with a pole effort of 1m40.219s aboard his works Yamaha R1.
Kawasaki man Rea had perceived to defend the lend a hand as he space the droop in third note earlier on Saturday, and backed that up with the quickest lap within the initial runs, a 1m40.697s.
Rea on account of this truth improved to a 1m40.524s all through his 2d traipse, eclipsing his FP3 benchmark by 0.029s.
Nonetheless that lap proved no match for Razgatlioglu’s final effort, because the Turkish rider benefitted from a tow from his Yamaha stablemate Andrea Locatelli to space a time a fleshy 0.305s faster than Rea.
Winding up the entrance row within the motivate of the 2 title protagonists was Honda rider Leon Haslam, who persevered the Jap marque’s solid present like with a time 0.561s off Razgatlioglu’s droop.
Scott Redding, who arrives in Portugal 74 parts down on Razgatlioglu, was most effective of the Ducatis in fourth space, whereas lead BMW man Michael van der Tag extremely made it 5 diversified producers within the conclude 5.
Locatelli was sixth on the 2d Yamaha sooner than Alvaro Bautista’s Honda and Garrett Gerloff on the GRT Yamaha.
Two Ducati riders carried out the conclude 10, with Run Eleven replace Loris Baz heading up the works bike of Michael Ruben Rinaldi.
BMW shatter replace Eugene Laverty crashed unaided late on at Turn 13, and might perchance well also merely line up 13th within the motivate of Axel Bassani (Motocorsa Ducati) and Leandro Mercado (MIE Honda).
Tito Rabat was a disappointing 20th-quickest on his return to WSBK motion on the Puccetti Kawasaki, 3.7s off the droop.