World Superbike teams complete final day of private testing at Aragon

from twowheelsblog

Just a week before the start of the second round of the World Superbike championship at Motorland Aragon, Pata Honda, Kawasaki, Fixi Crescent Suzuki and Ducati’s SBK test team completed their three days of private testing at the Motorland Aragon circuit.

While the first two days of testing was slightly hampered by strong winds, the final day [Thursday] was limited by rain showers, however Tom Sykes continued to be fastest rider overall with a best lap in 1’57″2 while testing new chassis new components some engine improvements.

Team mate Loris Baz, who has recently took part in the official pre-tests at Magny Cours with Team Kawasaki SRC ahead of the 2013 Bol d’Or endurance race also found some improvements ahead of next Sunday’s double header.

Tom Sykes said, “I think that my wrist is about 80% and my ribs 98% back to normal, so that was good. I was able to ride the bike again without too many limitations. We had some rain in the final afternoon but we had already finished just about everything we had wanted to do at the end of the second day. We were going to do a couple of long runs on two different settings today but the rain interrupted that. We have put a lot of laps on our tyres here and we still have all of race weekend to check out the final tyre situation for raceday. This test has also brought us some benefits in performance.”

WSBK Aragon test unofficial day 3 results:

1. Tom Sykes - Kawasaki - 1′57″2
2. Leon Camier - Suzuki - 1′59″0
3. Niccolò Canepa - Ducati - 1′59″3
4. Leon Haslam - Honda - 1′59″7
5. Jules Cluzel - Suzuki - 1′59″8
6. Matteo Baiocco - Ducati - 1′59″9
7. Loris Baz - Kawasaki - 2′00″0
8. Jonathan Rea - Honda - 2′00″0