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Jason O’Halloran tops final day of BSB Testing at Portimao

Trev by Trev
March 19, 2019
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BSB 2019 Portimao Test

Jason O’Halloran saved his best until last on the final day of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship official test at Portimao, posting the fastest time of the test with his final run of the day in the closing ten minutes to push Scott Redding back into second by 0.127s.

The final day started with OMG Racing Suzuki holding the top three positions with Tommy Bridewell on the Oxford Racing Ducati, who also had a spell at the top, splitting Josh Elliot and Luke Mossey before Xavi Forés moved to the top of the times after the first hour.

BSB Test Portimao Day Xavi Fores
Xavi Forés

Forés and Redding then locked out the leading two positions, as the pair prepare for their debut season in Bennetts BSB, but as the chequered flag went out to end the morning session it was the Be Wiser Ducati rider who had edged ahead by 0.339s.

When the test resumed this afternoon Bridewell was back on track for a longer run and he was able to move to within 0.177s of Redding and Forés with Elliot and Andrew Irwin completing the top five.

BSB Test Portimao Day Scott Redding
Scott Redding

O’Halloran meanwhile had taken the second McAMS Yamaha of Tarran Mackenzie for a run whilst his team-mate sat out the final afternoon after completing his workload and still feeling sore from his crash earlier in the week.

Josh Brookes had been working through various changes on the second Be Wiser Ducati, before a run later this afternoon which put him fourth fastest on the times and the Australian ended his day early as he now prepares for the next official test at Silverstone.

BSB Test Portimao Day Josh Brookes
Josh Brookes

As the final 30 minutes of the day arrived Redding, Forés and Brookes had the advantage at the top of the times, with the majority completing their test before the closing stages, however after moving into seventh O’Halloran returned to the garage and then went for one final time attack.

The McAMS Yamaha rider went for one final exit and was able to better his time to move to the top of the times, pushing Redding into second and Forés into third.


Jason O’Halloran

“That was exactly what we needed to end this test. We had a difficult end to Monteblanco because although we were fast, we had a few issues with the bike. We changed the frame there and it became really aggressive so we persevered with it here. I went out on Taz’s bike and his was completely different. I sat out a bit this afternoon whilst the boys changed the frame for me and when I went back out it felt immediately better. I did a run on old tyres and did my best time on the used tyres and then I came in and we put some new tyres in and I went out to have a bit of a go. It got me up front and I am feeling confident now heading to Silverstone and being up the sharp end.”

O'Halloran Yamaha YZF-R1
O’Halloran Yamaha YZF-R1

Bridewell held fourth as the Oxford Racing Ducati team continued their programme with the new Ducati V4 R, remaining ahead of Brookes and Elliot with Danny Buchan climbing to seventh in the final stages of the day.

Glenn Irwin was the leading Quattro Plant JG Speedfit Kawasaki in eighth, making progress with the 2019 specification bike, narrowly edging out his brother Andrew and Mossey completing the top ten.

Alastair Seeley was also testing in Portugal, the Ulsterman will ride a Be Wiser Ducati V4R at the North West 200 this season. He was a little over two-seconds off the pace but learned valuable lessons about the new Ducati.

South Australian Billy McConnell was the fastest of the Superstock riders present.


BSB 2019 Portimao Test Times
Day 1/2 Combined

  1. Jason O’Halloran (McAMS Yamaha) 1m:43.600s
  2. Scott Redding (Be Wiser Ducati) +0.127s
  3. Xavi Forés (Honda Racing) +0.161s
  4. Tommy Bridewell (Oxford Racing Ducati) +0.304s
  5. Josh Brookes (Be Wiser Ducati) +0.319s
  6. Josh Elliott (OMG Racing Suzuki) +0.407s
  7. Danny Buchan (FS-3 Racing Kawasaki) +0.478s
  8. Glenn Irwin (Quattro Plant JG Speedfit Kawasaki) +0.816s
  9. Andrew Irwin (Honda Racing Racing) +1.006s
  10. Luke Mossey (OMG Racing Suzuki) +1.160s
  11. Claudio Corti (Team WD-40 Kawasaki) +1.171s
  12. Tarran Mackenzie (McAMS Yamaha) +1.506s
  13. Ryan Vickers (RAF Kawasaki) +2.051s
  14. Jack Kennedy (Macadam Yamaha) +2.231s
  15. Matt Truelove (McAMS Yamaha) +2.369s
  16. Alastair Seeley (Be Wiser Ducati) +2.376s
  17. Fraser Rogers (Gearlink Kawasaki) +2.679s
  18. Ben Currie (JG Speedfit Kawasaki) +2.867s
  19. STK (OMG Suzuki) Billy McConnell +3.040s
  20. Brad Jones (Macadam Yamaha) +3.522s
  21. STK (RAF Kawasaki) Gary Johnson +3.535s
  22. STK Lee Jackson (FS-3 Kawasaki) +3.853s
  23. STK Tom Neave (Honda Racing) +3.973s
  24. Sam Coventry (Team 64 Kawasaki) +3.973s
  25. SS Harry Truelove (Yamaha) +4.088s
  26. STK Eemeli Lahti (Staff Quick Connect Kawasaki) +4.360s
  27. SS Ross Twyman (Gearlink Kawasaki) +6.234s
  28. SS Ben Wilson (Gearlink Kawasaki) +7.089s
BSB Test Portimao Day Scott Redding
Scott Redding

The next Bennetts British Superbike Championship action comes from Silverstone on April 9 for the final Official Test before the season opener.

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