Zolder race winner Benjamin Bailly continued his run of excellent form by topping his second free practice session of the day in Portimão.
The Belgian topped the early running before going on to improve his time further in the latter stages. A flurry of late flying laps followed with British driver Jack Clarke coming the closest to matching Bailly.
Like Bailly, Clarke has also been in good form after equalling his best ever result with fourth place in Belgium last time out. The 22-year-old put in a number of consistent laps during this session - eventually finishing just 0.034s short of Bailly's benchmark.
The session seemed to run with current form as Kazim Vasiliauskas and Jolyon Palmer claimed third and fourth, ahead of Briton Will Bratt. Such was the closeness of the session that the top five drivers were separated by less than two tenths of a second.
Ricardo Teixeira enjoyed another eye catching run as the Angolan driver completed the top six, while Italy's Nicola De Marco was less than three hundredths of a second behind in seventh.
Ivan Samarin was more than half a second off the ultimate pace, but his performance remained good enough for eighth place, ahead of two-time race winner Dean Stoneman, who also went off track late on.
Kelvin Snoeks rounded out the top ten and the Dutchman had further cause to celebrate after finding out that his fellow countrymen had beaten Brazil in the FIFA World Cup!
Sergey Afanasiev has endured a challenging day and the Russian racer had to recover from going off at turn four in the early stages to eventually finish in 11th. Plamen Kralev was another driver to make a mistake on the technical Portimão circuit - the Bulgarian spinning at the tight turn five hairpin.
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| Autodromo Internacional do Algarve 2010 | |
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| 4 Jul '10 | Stoneman wins second race at Portimão |
| 4 Jul '10 | Palmer takes pole position for second race |
| 3 Jul '10 | Palmer takes commanding win at Portimão |
| 3 Jul '10 | Palmar denies Bailly's pole |
| 3 Jul '10 | Bailly continues strong pace at Portimão |
| 2 Jul '10 | Benjamin Bailly sets early Portimão pace |
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| 25 Jun '10 | Race winner Bailly remaining modest |
| 20 Jun '10 | Bailly converts pole position into first race win |
| 18 Jun '10 | Bailly fastest in second practice |
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