Tarran was back out on the track over the weekend and back out in Portugal, this time at the Circuito Estoril, located west of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. It was the 11th and penultimate round of the World Superbike Championship for Tarran with some much needed points up for grabs.

Tarran got off to a great start on Friday morning in the first free practice session, with the wet conditions proving an advantage and coming in 4th place, just under a second off the leader.

Tarran carried this form on going into Saturday morning and into another free practice session posting an 11th-placed finish, again in the wet conditions. Tarran then managed to beat his morning times in the SuperPole race and secured an 8th-place start on the grid ready for race 1.

By Saturday afternoon the track had managed to dry since the morning laps, causing slight concern for Tarran with nearly all of the practice sessions being in wet conditions and only having managed 2 dry laps so far. It did prove difficult for Tarran, but he still managed to post a respectable 18th place finish.

With some experience on a fully dry track on Saturday, Tarran was ready to attack the track on Sunday, but disaster struck early on as Tarran collided with another rider causing him to come off of his bike and onto the track but luckily, both walked away uninjured.

This is what Tarran had to say on his weekend:

“Day one was wet, so coming home 4th in free practice was encouraging considering I was learning the track in the process. The positives kept coming as day two was also wet, and I qualified on the third row of the grid in 8th position. The downside to all of this was I literally had two dry laps of practice before the race, so I was setting off into the unknown! Unsurprisingly, I went backwards in the race but at least got some valuable testing in dry conditions”.

Tarran then went on to say:

“I was confident going into Sunday, but I unfortunately got tangled up with another rider on the second lap and hit the tarmac pretty hard. I proved once again I can compete with the best when there’s a level playing field, so I’ll take the positives to the last round in Jerez and try hard once again”.

We’ll next see Tarran in the final round of the World Superbike Championship this weekend in Spain, at the Circuito de Jerez where it is the last chance to earn some much-needed championship points.