Tarran Mackenzie 'made a bit of progress' at the Portimao WorldSBK Test

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After a difficult first round of the season, Tarran Mackenzie believes he has made progress at the Portimao Test.

The 2025 World Superbike Championship has not started the way that Tarran Mackenzie or the Petronas MIE Racing Honda Team would have wanted it to.

The British rider walked away from the opening round at Phillip Island with no points to his name. However, before Round Two he has been able to complete a two-day test at Portimao.

Mackenzie was on track on both days and believes he has made progress with the base setup of his Honda CBR1000RR-R.

At the end of the month, Mackenzie and his team will be back in Portugal for the Portimao World Superbike Round, where it will become clear whether he has made progress or not.

"Yesterday I felt a bit better in myself, riding wise, using the base setting from Phillip Island, and we already made a bit of progress by the end of the day, despite wet weather in the morning," Mackenzie said.

"Today we've not done so many laps; we had big plans as we began this morning, but a few changes took longer than expected and then, once we were ready to go out, it started raining!

"It came on to rain again after lunch, a little bit annoying because we had quite a lot we wanted to do this afternoon to be heading in the right direction for the race.

"It finally dried up so that we could use the final 50 minutes and that was good, we improved on our times and the feeling was a bit better with the changes we'd made; we just ran out of time at the end to be able to use a Q tyre.

"I feel good in myself anyway, which is the main thing, having not felt so good in Australia, so that's positive and I think we've found a better direction for the races here in a couple of weeks."

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