November 01 2008 - WSBK'08 Round 14 | Portimao, day-2 Team Pedercini is ready to face the last round of the season 2008. The Italian team lines up Ayrton Badovini on the forth line of the starting grid and Vittorio Iannuzzo on the seventh one. Badovini has entered today his fifth seasonal Superpole and tomorrow his goal will be to close his first SBK season finishing both the race into the points. On the other hand Vittorio Iannuzzo will face the two race without any particular goal except closing the season with a good performance after one year influenced by the bad injury occurred in Australia. He will be at the top of his condition for the 2009 season. In Superstock1000 times have not changed due to the rain fallen during the afternoon which restrained all the riders to capitalize the work done this morning on a dry track in the free practice.
AYRTON BADOVINI | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 14th qualified in 2'06.354:“I’m happy to have entered the Superpole once again, although the rain denied me the chance to go for broke. The starting position have been defined by 50 minutes under the rain in which I grabbed the 14th pace. It’s a good starting position by which entering the battle for the top-ten also thank to a good bike tuning which gave me the opportunity to record good times during the afternoon free practice too”.
VITTORIO IANNUZZO | Kawasaki ZX-10R | 27th qualified in 1'47.231:“Today we have done a good work. I improved my times constantly but just when my feeling with the track was good , the rain started to fall once again during the free practice and it stopped our work. Nevertheless my spirit is good and I will take it easy tomorrow, thank to a good feeling with the track and the bike”.
