WSBK 15 | Portimao, Portugal

Enough Bruce Jenner in here, time for a racing thread.

Round 7 of 13 is Sunday... Tom Sykes has found his form? championship may be out of reach at this point but the racing could get real good, especially if Rea decides to play it safe and Chaz/Davide decide to press against Tom.

PJ Jacobsen is on the CORE Honda team, in case everyone hadnt heard that.

Track Map


last year:


TVRacer shows beIn having superpole and the races here, but not showing WSS.

Weather: looks like hot (89F) and partly cloudy for sunday.


i would love to see Chaz on the top step, but im a Rea fan so i'd like to see

Rea
Davies
Giugliano
Sykes

 

Love this track!

 

I think Sykes hates this track. In fact I think he and Rea had a little Twatter spat last year when Sykes claimed it was unsafe or no good for WSBK. anyway I'm putting my get on Rea....and hope PJ has a great race too!!

 

Got my fingers crossed that PJ's bike is good.:up:

 

1. Jules Cluzel FRA MV Agusta RC F3 675 1m 46.005s
2. Lorenzo Zanetti ITA MV Agusta RC F3 675 1m 46.390s
3. Kenan Sofuoglu TUR Kawasaki Puccetti ZX-6R 1m 46.489s
4. Kyle Smith GBR PATA Honda CBR600RR 1m 47.176s
5. PJ Jacobsen USA CORE Thailand Honda CBR600RR 1m 47.203s
6. Gino Rea GBR CIA Insurance Honda CBR600RR 1m 47.466s
7. Martin Cardenas COL CIA Insurance Honda CBR600RR 1m 47.480s
8. Alex Baldolini ITA ATK#25 MV Agusta F3 675 1m 47.824s
9. Roberto Rolfo ITA Lorini Honda CBR600RR 1m 47.851s
10. Marco Faccani ITA Kawasaki Puccetti ZX-6R 1m 48.087s
11. Christian Gamarino ITA GO Eleven Kawasaki ZX-6R 1m 48.343s
12. Fabio Menghi ITA VFT Yamaha YZF-R6 1m 48.794s
13. Marcos Ramirez ESP Team Lorini Honda CBR600RR 1m 48.818s
14. Kevin Wahr GER SMS Honda CBR600RR 1m 49.905s
15. Nacho Calero ESP CAT/exit Kawasaki ZX-6R 1m 49.933s
16. Glenn Scott AUS AARK Honda CBR600RR 1m 50.384s
17. Miguel Praia POR CIA Insurance Honda CBR600RR 1m 50.412s
18. Ezequiel IturriozARG Cat/exit Kawasaki ZX-6R 1m 50.826s
19. Riccardo Russo ITA CIA Insurance Honda CBR600RR 1m 51.209s
20. Dominic Schmitter SUI GO Eleven Kawasaki ZX-6R 1m 51.919s

free practice 1 for WSS. hopefully that is a good sign for the weekend.

 

Fp1 for SBK:

1. Jonathan Rea GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 43.514s
2. Davide Giugliano ITA Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 44.218s
3. Alex Lowes GBR Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 44.394s
4. Chaz Davies GBR Aruba.it Racing Ducati 1199R 1m 44.412s
5. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki Racing ZX-10R 1m 44.601s
6. Ayrton Badovini ITA BMW Italia S1000RR 1m 44.603s
7. Sylvain Guintoli FRA PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 44.722s
8. Jordi Torres ESP Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 1m 44.728s
9. Matteo Baiocco ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 44.951s
10. David Salom ESP Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 45.197s
11. Leon Camier GBR MV Agusta F4 RR 1m 45.238s
12. Leandro Mercado ARG Barni Ducati 1199R 1m 55.479s
13. Michael van der Mark NED PATA Honda CBR1000RR 1m 45.689s
14. Roman Ramos ESP GO Eleven Kawasaki ZX-10R1m 45.990s
15. Nico Terol ITA Althea Ducati 1199R 1m 46.415s
16. Randy de Puniet FRA Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 46.629s
17. Niccolo Canepa ITA Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 47.675s
18. Christophe Ponsson FRA Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 47.694s
19. Gabor Rizmayer HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 48.712s
20. Santiago Barragan ESP Grillini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1m 50.389s
NQ. Imre Toth HUN Team Toth BMW S1000RR 1m 50.932s
NQ. Leon Haslam GBR Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 15m 07.810s

 

PJ up to 4th after FP2. He is only .5 secs back now.

 

Impressive for the first weekend with a new team and a new bike.

 

Good progress! The bike must be pretty capable.

 

definitely. hope him and Marteeen do well this weekend. i count Marteen as one of "our own" even if he is from Columbia.

Although i suspect Cluzel will pass PJ in the championship standings this weekend

 

I was just listening to Motopod's discussion regarding the issues that Inter-moto Kawasaki are currently dealing with. It's never a good sign when the team owner has been listed as a missing person and all the team equipment gets locked down. I'm glad that PJ was able to find a new ride so quickly.

 

Pj in second on a completly new bike.

 

Not according to www,crashnet.com

FP 2 Actually results and FANTASTIC work by your man

1. Jules Cluzel FRA MV Agusta RC F3 675 1m 46.005s
2. Kenan Sofuoglu TUR Kawasaki Puccetti ZX-6R 1m 46.152s
3. Lorenzo Zanetti ITA MV Agusta RC F3 675 1m 46.390s
4. PJ Jacobsen USA CORE Thailand Honda CBR600RR 1m 46.512s

Still only parctise and bloody awsome work
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when i read the thing about switching teams i kinda thought to myself, well, scratch this year off. but to be deep inside the top ten is a GREAT result on a bike he hasnt ridden until yesterday, with a crew that (im assuming) are all brand new to working with him.

 

Some one go and punch this soft cock in the throat please



19. Randy de Puniet FRA Voltcom Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000 1m 46.629s

Kick ya dam hat around quicker

 

Official SBK website has PJ 2nd....

http://resources.worldsbk.com/files....pdf?version=c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b

 

Even Better then! How to hell could 2 such official sites get it so different

 

crash.net is anything but official.

-jim

 

I have never seen this kind of cock on there before

 

crash.net is showing the combined FP1/FP2.

FP1
CLUZEL 1 1'46.005 J. 16 MV Agusta Reparto Corse MV Agusta F3 675 FRA
ZANETTI 2 1'46.390 L. 87 MV Agusta Reparto Corse MV Agusta F3 675 ITA
SOFUOGLU 3 1'46.489 K. 54 Kawasaki Puccetti Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R TUR
SMITH 4 1'47.176 K. 111 PATA Honda World Supersport Team Honda CBR600RR GBR
JACOBSEN 5 1'47.203 P. 99 CORE'' Motorsport Thailand Honda CBR600RR USA

FP2
SOFUOGLU 1 1'46.152 K. 54 Kawasaki Puccetti Racing Kawasaki ZX-6R TUR
JACOBSEN 2 1'46.512 P. 99 CORE'' Motorsport Thailand Honda CBR600RR USA
CLUZEL 3 1'46.574 J. 16 MV Agusta Reparto Corse MV Agusta F3 675 FRA
REA 4 1'46.901 G. 4 CIA Landlords Insurance Honda Honda CBR600RR GBR
ROLFO 5 1'46.967 R. 44 Team Lorini Honda CBR600RR ITA