Gino Rea is full of confidence ahead of the second round of the World Supersport at Portimao, Portugal, following his 10th place finish in his debut race at Phillip Island.

Rea went to a track day at Brands Hatch on Monday to try a find a better base setting to help for Portimao, and is now raring to go.

He said: “I’m really looking forward to Portimao, it's one of my favourite tracks so I hope we can get a good set up there as quick as possible, then bring back another good result for the team."

The test went well and they got through lots of different settings with Gino coming away feeling like his "old-self".

Gino said: 'Yesterday we went to Brands Hatch to test some new suspension out, it went very well. I was riding a borrowed CBR600 from a friend called Gene, it was just a completely stock bike with stock gearing, but the chassis is the same as my race bike, so we could try the suspension and get a similar feeling to what my race bike would give me.

"Andrew done a fantastic job and we had a good setting by lunch time, which we just played about with from then on dialling little problems out. I felt like I was back to my old self, I could make the bike do what I want to do instead of just managing the bike like I was in Phillip Island.

'We only used a Pirelli SC2 tyre which is harder than what we use in World Supersport, but we definitely made the most of it. I got the tyre worn out so much, on the right hand side you could see the tyre mouldings and canvas coming through! It was good fun sliding and drifiting it though!"