Jerez WorldSBK Test: Rea And Sykes Rule On First Day Of Testing Under New Regulations

Submitted by David Emmett on Mon, 2017-11-20 17:21

The WorldSBK and BSB riders kicked off the first day of a week-long test at Jerez. With the WorldSBK riders now working under the new rules, the teams are coming to grips with the rev limits put in place.

It didn't slow the KRT Kawasakis up much, however. Jonathan Rea was fastest, as he has been all year, posting a time just under seven tenths slower than his Superpole time back in October. Tom Sykes was second quickest, just over a third of a second behind his teammate, but over a second faster than Eugene Laverty on the Milwaukee Aprilia.

Leon Haslam, still suffering with a broken ankle sustained in the final round of BSB, posted the fourth quickest time on a BSB-spec Kawasaki ZX-10R, leading the BSB teams present at the test. Testing continues tomorrow, and for the rest of the week.

Times:

Pos	No	Class	Name	Bike	Time	Diff	Gap
1	1	SBK	Jonathan Rea	Kawasaki	1:39.650
2	66	SBK	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki	1:40.005	0.355	0.355
3	50	SBK	Eugene Laverty	Aprilia	1:41.183	1.533	1.178
4	91	BSB	Leon Haslam	Kawasaki	1:41.279	1.629	0.096
5	76	SBK	Loris Baz	BMW	1:41.352	1.702	0.073
6	32	SBK	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1:41.374	1.724	0.022
7	81	SBK	Jordi Torres	MV Agusta	1:41.628	1.978	0.254
8	12	BSB	Luke Mossey	Kawasaki	1:41.701	2.051	0.073
9	65	SBK	Leandro Mercado	Kawasaki	1:42.041	2.391	0.340
10	68	SBK	Yonny Hernandez	Kawasaki	1:42.476	2.826	0.435
11	10	SSP	Nacho Calero	Kawasaki	1:45.785	6.135	3.309