WorldSSP riders Toba and Pawi took to the track for a final warm-up on Sunday morning ahead of the weekend’s second and final 17-lap race. With that completed, the team had to wait until 4.30pm local time for Race 2, considering the revised schedule for this Portimão round. As the race got underway, Toba made another rapid start from sixteenth, soon gaining two positions. Inside the points zone right from the start, the Japanese rider was part of a group of six riders and was oscillating between P14 and P16 through the initial stages. Unfortunately, a lap six crash through turn 4 following contact with another rider brought what was looking to be a promising race to a decidedly premature end for Toba. Pawi, twenty-third on the grid, also made up two places in the first couple of laps. Battling his closest rivals from start to finish, the Malaysian rider finished inside the top twenty, in nineteenth position. 

The PETRONAS MIE Racing Honda Team now has a little over three weeks to prepare for the eighth WorldSSP round, which is scheduled to take place at the Nevers Magny-Cours circuit in France on 6-8 September.