Round 8 Portimao: EVO And Superstock Race

2014-07-08 00:23
A full raceday at Portimao saw the Kawasaki SBK Evo riders take on the eighth round of the season and gain many positive results. Kawasaki’s competitors in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup, during round five, also showed their very best potential to dominate the podium places.

SBK Evo Kawasaki Riders
In the Evo Championship a largely dry race one at Portimao allowed David Salom to wait until he was ready before making a late push to take the win. In a wet race two he was not as confident in the more slippery conditions but he ran out ahead of his closest championship challenger, and increased his championship advantage to 28 points.

Behind Salom in race one, Jeremy Guarnoni (MRS Kawasaki) was a high points scorer in 12th place. Riccardo Russo (Kawasaki Team Pedercini) placed 14th in the race and his fellow Pedercini rider, Alessandro Andreozzi, was 15th and the last points scorer.

Race two proved to be a profitable one for many Kawasaki Evo riders, with race one non-finisher Sheridan Morais (Iron Brain Kawasaki SBK Team) 12th, and followed him by Guarnoni, Bryan Staring (Iron Brain Kawasaki SBK Team) and Russo in the final points scoring positions down to 15th.

Next up for the Kawasaki Evo riders is the eagerly-awaited Laguna Seca round, which takes place on Sunday 13th July.

Superstock 1000 FIM Cup
After an impressive win in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup class Lorenzo Savadori (Kawasaki Team Pedercini) scooped up enough points at Portimao to take the championship lead with only two more rounds to go in the season. He is now four points ahead of Leandro Mercado.

In the 14-lap race in Portugal, held in wet but drying conditions, Matthieu Lussiana (Kawasaki Team Garnier by Aspi) was second and Kawasaki riders made it a clean sweep of the podium places when David McFadden (MRS Kawasaki) scored third on a great day for the Ninja ZX-10R riders.

With no race for the Superstock riders at Laguna Seca next weekend the penultimate round will be held at Jerez, in Spain, on September 7th.

Source: Kawasaki Racing Team

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