by Mark
The riders lined up for race two and the final race of the year in Portimao with Jonathan Rea on pole and Carlos Checa alongside.
In a similar start to race one, Rea got off to a good start with the two Yamaha’s of Eugene Laverty and Marco Melandri right behind.
Laverty though made a couple of late lunges and was in first place half-way through the second lap, a lap later Rea was taken by the second Yamaha of Melandri.
Max Biaggi was running down in tenth but with Laverty in first place he was in danger of losing his championship place unless he finished third or better.
Melandri made a mistake that allowed Rea to go past into second but it was only briefly as Melandri squeezed past at the end of the straight on the next lap.
Biaggi made steady progress through the field following his team mate Leon Camier and was up to seventh with 14 laps remaining.
The race was a bit of a procession until the final few laps when Melandri finally made a move on his team mate to takes first place.
On the final two laps Rea and Laverty began to battle for second place, Rea took him but Laverty slid and kept his cool to take it back a few corners later.
- Marco Melandri – Yamaha World Superbike Team - 38.11.326
- Eugene Laverty – Yamaha World Superbike Team +1.075
- Jonathan Rea – Castrol Honda +1.363
- Carlos Checa – Althea Racing +2.648
- Sylvain Guintoli – Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing+3.355
- Leon Camier – Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team +4.709
- Max Biaggi – Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team +6.514
- Joan Lascorz – Kawasaki Racing Team +14.441
- Ayrton Badovini – BMW Motorrad Italia SBK Team +19.128
- Maxime Berger – Supersonic Racing Team +25.527
- Noriyuki Haga – PATA Racing Team Aprilia +26.400
- Davide Giugliano – Althea Racing +26.646
- Jakub Smrz – Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing +26.963
- Michel Fabrizio – Team Suzuki Alstare +30.209
- Leon Haslam – BMW Motorrad Motorsport +30.951
- Troy Corser – BMW Motorrad Motorsport +31.057
- Karl Muggeridge – Castrol Honda +57.941
- Joshua Waters – Yoshimura Suzuki Racing Team +58.577
- Javier Fores – BMW Motorrad Italia SBK Team +1.04.011
- Mark Aitchison – Team Pedercini +1.04.397
