18:54 – Here is the complete starting grid:
18:52 – Immediately behind is Nicolò Bulega, lined up in the fourth position.
18:50 – Danilo Petrucci smiles. After having set the best time in FP2 yesterday, the Terni native was the author of an excellent Superpole, grabbing third place on the grid.
18:48 – Toprak Razgatlioglu will start from pole position once again. The best position to start from in an attempt to continue his streak of consecutive victories.
18:44 – With just over 15 minutes to go, the riders are starting to reach the starting grid for this unprecedented sunset heat.
18:43 – Welcome to our live broadcast of Game 1.
There is very little left now until the first challenge at the sunset of this fiery Round in Portimao. At 18:00 local time, 19:00 in Italy, the Algarve track will see Toprak Razgatlioglu start from pole position, in search of that 11th consecutive victory that would allow him to equal the record set by Alvaro Bautista and Jonathan Rea.
Alex Lowes and Danilo Petrucci will try to put a spoke in the wheels of the Turk, who will accompany him on the front row, followed by Nicolò Bulega, Michael van der Mark and Bautista. Seventh and eighth place on the grid for Andrea Locatelli and Jonathan Rea, while Axel Bassani and Andrea Iannone will have to try to climb from 12th and 15th place respectively.
