Jeffery Buis (Freudenberg KTM-Paligo Racing) once again roared across the finish line in the season-opening Race 1 of the 2025 FIM Supersport 300 World Championship season. The 6^th year WorldSSP300 rider is in the hunt this year for his third World Championship in the category to emphatically close the question of the greatest WorldSSP300 rider of all time.

The Dutch rider credited his ability to hit the ground running to the progress he and his team were able to make at the pair of testing days hosted the week prior to the round at Portimao. His speed in testing translated well, earning the rider his second career win at Portimao, and 14^th of his career in the Championship.

Buis said: “We were testing here, and because of this we had a very good setup here on this track. From our first laps here in Free Practice we were already fast. This helped us a lot establish a good race pace, and you can build around that during the weekend, that was our plan, and it worked. Even in the last few laps, my race pace was good, and I think that’s why we won the race.”

Racing of course is not solely a matter of optimising the machinery of the bike; while certainly Buis’s crew certainly did well to dial in their KTM RC 390 R, Buis’s riding and the strategy behind it put the Dutch rider has participated in the fifth-most races of any rider in the Championship, and his experience in the category has taught him the importance of managing the tires to be able to make a late run to the line as he did in Race 1.

He added: “My goal is always to have a little bit of a reserve at the end of the race, then give everything at the end and this time it worked out, sometimes it’s one big crazy mess at the last lap but for this race the plan worked out.”

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