Source: Kawasaki.

The Jerez Circuit in southern Spain hosted today the first day of a full week of private testing for many of the World Superbike teams preparing for the 2015 season.

Given the rain fell overnight, the riders were forced back at the pits for a significant amount of time whilst waiting for track conditions to improve. The conditions worsened again with three hours left, not allowing the teams to make the best out of day one.

New Pata Honda duo of Sylvain Guintoli and Michael van der Mark had their first ride of the off season, both making their debut aboard the team’s CBR1000RR.

Kawasaki pairing of Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea continued evaluating new settings after last week’s successful test at Aragon along with WSS rider Kenan Sofuoglu (San Carlo Puccetti Racing). Ulsterman Rea set the quickest time of the day in 1’44.643.

The Crescent Suzuki Team was also at the track with both Alex Lowes and WSBK debutant Randy De Puniet in what is their first test of the off season.

Nicolas ‘Nico’ Terol could try for the first time the 2015 version of the 1199 Panigale R he will ride next year, as the new recruit of the Althea Racing Team was joined this time out by his STK1000 teammates Luca Salvadori and Raffaele De Rosa.

Terol’s laps were not officially recorded as the team chose not to use any transponder on his bike.

WSBK Jerez test day one results:
1. Jonathan Rea 1m44.643
2. Alex Lowes 1m45.340
3. Michael van Mark 1m45.472
4. Tom Sykes 1m45.836
5. Raffaele Da Rosa 1m46.092 (STK1000)
6. Kenan Sofuoglu 1m46.202 (WSS)
7. Randy de Puniet 1m46.317
8. Sylvain Guintoli 1m47.650
9. Luca Savadori 1m48.365 (STK1000)