Rain and bad weather characterised day one of practice making up the eleventh WorldSBK round at Estoril in Portugal.
This morning, rider Tito Rabat was out for free practice on a full wet track. With a time of 1’56”854, the Kawasaki Puccetti Racing rider finished in twenty-first place.
The weather and track conditions improved for the second practice session, in which Tito improved significantly on his best time to set a 1’39”363. With this result, Tito moved up to fifteenth in the day’s combined standings.
Rabat will return to the track tomorrow for Superpole and Race 1.
Estoril – Alcabideche – Portugal
Superbike World Championship
Combined free practice results: 1) Razgatlioglu (BMW) – 2) Petrucci (Ducati) – 3) Lowes (Kawasaki) – 4) Bautista (Ducati) – 5) Lecuona (Honda)……15) Rabat (Kawasaki)
Tito Rabat
“Today brought very changeable conditions that weren’t easy to interpret. This morning we worked a lot on the wet setting and were able to understand the bike’s behaviour in those conditions. In the afternoon, on a dry track, we were doing well but as soon as we put in a fresh tyre, the rain came and so I couldn’t do more than fifteenth in the end. I’m confident for tomorrow though and hope to improve further, especially in the wet.”
