Team Sterilgarda GMB Racing closed yesterday a two day of testing at Portimao. Shane Byrne and Alex Polita, the two riders chosen by Marco Borciani to face the Superbike 2009 season, took to the track after the last round of the 2008 World Superbike, in which the Italian team showed to be one of the most competitive of the championship. The two days of testing were helpful especially to start to build the feeling between the team members and the riders, a feeling which is really cared by Borciani. As well, excellent times comes from the testing: Shane Byrne cut one tenth off the record of the track and Alex Polita was able to follow his new team-mate separated by less than one second. SHANE BYRNE | DUCATI 1098 RS09 | 1’43.6: “I’m really glad with the result come from this first testing. The bike resembles the one by which I won the BSB title. So it was easy to get in the saddle of Sterilgarda’s bike especially because I felt immediately a member of this team. We did an hard work on a very funny track which gives to the rider wonderful emotions”. ALEX POLITA | DUCATI 1098 RS09 | 1’44.5: “I found quickly a good pace thanks to the guys of the team and to my new team-mate who made me immediately comfortable. I got a good feeling with the Superbike from the first lap. It’s like an elder sister of the bike I’ve ridden until last Sunday. There are more things to set, that means I will have the opportunity to tailor the bike on me, as I’ve started to do in the Superstock thanks to the team which taught me so much”.