Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes completed the final European test of their pre-season preparations at Motorland Aragon overnight, finding further improvements in the set-up of the new Ninja ZX-10R as the first round of the 2016 season looms on the horizon.
High winds prevented any action form the official KRT pairing on day one but they made the most of their window of opportunity today to finalise their personal choices of machine set-up - and compare the most recent data collected at their previous test at Jerez de la Frontera last week.
The team staff used the first day at Motorland to build the final spec of 2016 WorldSBK racing machinery; using materials freshly arrived from KHI in Japan. Tom and Jonathan started on track at midday on day two after the track had warmed-up somewhat.
Sykes was pleased to be at the same best pace he recorded in the 2015 race weekend, after finding improvements from the recent Jerez test sessions.
‰ÛÏWe had a good test, short but very productive," Sykes said, "I am happy to have finished the European winter testing on a great level and we are working really nicely. I have been speaking with some of the other Kawasaki riders and they are really happy on the new bike, saying that it is very easy to ride. We focused on some fundamental things and not on performance, which was good.
"It worked out to be quite productive at the end. We had to do a couple of things for Pirelli, for their information, and I am really happy how things went.‰Û
