Team ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing kicked off the new season with three days of testing at Portimao, an event organised by Infront Motorsports. The "4 Musketeers" Chaz Davies, Sebastien Charpentier, David Salom and Jason Di Salvo started preparing the bikes for the upcoming season.

Chaz Davies, who raced for team ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing last year and David Salom worked on the new fork configurations and the shock absorbers but also on the electronic system, precisely on the traction control.

Di Salvo and Charpentier started learning the difficult Portuguese track, which is unknown to them and improved their feeling with the bike. The riders were particularly focused on understanding and learning the machine's different features compared to the bikes they had raced on the years before: David Salom rode a Kawasaki in the 2009 WSBK season, Jason di Salvo raced in the USA on a Suzuki GSX in the Sportbike category, while the former two times champion Sebastien Charpentier,who is now making a comeback only raced a couple of times in Endurance.

These three days are not to be considered positive, it was more of a shakedown for both riders and technicians. The former are essentially ready for the next test in Australia when they will have the machines set up for the 2010 season, the latter,among which there are new faces as well, got to know the riders and learned the crew's work method, the true strength of this team. And it this this particular quality that will help improve last season's results according to the team owner Giuliano Rovelli.  

Times:

1 50 Laverty E. (IRL) Honda CBR600RR 1'45.104

2 26 Lascorz J. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-6R 1'45.292

3 51 Pirro M. (ITA) Honda CBR600RR 1'45.587

4 117 Praia M. (POR) Honda CBR600RR 1'45.834

5 37 Fujiwara K. (JPN) Kawasaki ZX-6R 1'45.988

6 7 Davies C. (GBR) Triumph Daytona 675 1'46.610

7 99 Foret F. (FRA) Kawasaki ZX-6R 1'46.836

8 25 Salom D. (ESP) Triumph Daytona 675 1'47.054

9 40 Di Salvo J. (USA) Triumph Daytona 675 1'47.773

10 9 Dell'Omo D. (ITA) Honda CBR600RR 1'48.098

11 5 Lundh A. (SWE) Honda CBR600RR 1'49.332

12 16 Charpentier S. (FRA) Triumph Daytona 675 1'49.452

13 33 Cazzola P. (ITA) Honda CBR600RR 1'49.553

14 8 Chesaux B. (SUI) Yamaha YZF R6 1'49.627

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