Pasini fastest again on Estoril Saturday morning

Mattia Pasini remained on the pace in the first Saturday session at the bwin.com Grande Premio de Portugal, topping the early free practice timesheet ahead of Bancaja Aspars Hector Faubel.

Mattia Pasini remained on the pace in the first Saturday session at the bwin.com Grande Premio de Portugal, topping the early free practice timesheet ahead of Bancaja Aspars Hector Faubel.

The Italian Polaris World rider will go in search of his seventh pole position of the season this afternoon having put himself provisionally at the top of the grid yesterday afternoon.

Having dominated both sessions on Friday, Pasini went round in 1´45.150s this morning, to stay 0.174s in front of Faubel and 0.191s ahead of Faubels World Championship leading team-mate Gabor Talmacsi.

Behind the leading three were Lukas Pesek (Valsir Seedorf Derbi), the only none Aprilia rider in the top eight, followed by Sergio Gadea (Bancaja Aspar), Joan Olive (Polaris World), Stefan Bradl (Blusens Aprilia) and Pol Espargaro (Belson Campetella Aprilia).

Swiss rider Randy Krummenacher, on the KTM machinery of his Red Bull KTM 125 team, and Simone Corsi (Skilled Racing Team) completed the top ten.