Kawasaki completed two days of running at the Spanish venue this week, although Rea didn’t go out on track until the second afternoon to preserve his testing allocation for the new season.
The six-time WSBK champion, however, did make good use of the limited running, setting a best time of 1m38.851s to beat teammate Alex Lowes and Puccetti Kawasaki rider Lucas Mahias, as well as the factory Hondas of Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge that were present on the first day of the test.
The Ulsterman also completed what Kawasaki described as a ‘confident-boosting’ long run, racking up a total of 61 laps around the 4.4km circuit.
Rea’s long-time crew chief Pere Riba was impressed by the work put in by the 34-year-old in such a short span of time, as Kawasaki evaluated several new parts on the ZX-10RR.
“We focused mainly on the chassis side, because we are reconfirming things we did in December and comparing them with new items we built since the previous test,” said Riba.
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