At the third appointment of the season, after the difficulties met during the first two Grand Prix races in Qatar and Jerez de la Frontera, the Alice Team riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli, have improved their performances. The end of this not-so-lucky period for the Hispanic-Italian Team is still far, but this can be considered as a good starting point. During the warm up, when the track was wet, Sylvain was at ease on the Estoril circuit, but, unluckily for him, in the first hours of the Portuguese afternoon, the track completely dried out. On the contrary, Toni, who encountered some difficulties in the 25 minutes of morning work concluding in 18th position, found a good setting of the bike in the afternoon and finished in 12th position.