Source: Ducati Corse.

The Ducati Team successfully wrapped up its programme for 2014 with two days of testing at Jerez, where next year’s factory team duo of Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone were out on track together with a number of other MotoGP and SBK riders.

Also present was test-rider Michele Pirro, who continued development work with the Desmosedici ‘lab’ bike and who will remain for one extra day tomorrow.

Today’s action was conditioned by the rain that fell overnight, and with the addition of a winter cold snap and constant showers this made it impossible to put in a good amount of laps.

On Wednesday however, in much more favourable conditions, the two Andreas were on the pace straight away with their Desmosedici GP14.2 machines.

“We had to do set-up testing to get some exact information for next year’s bike,” Dovizioso said. “We did a good job yesterday, lapping all day and everything went well. I set a really good lap time, our record at Jerez.

“Even though I don’t put a lot of importance on these times because many of our rivals were not here, it still gives you a lot of pleasure.

“Above all we were quick all day on used, hard and soft tyres, so this is even more confirmation that the bike has improved since mid-season and that we went better than what we did at Jerez in the race.”

Both riders set good times after working mainly on electronics and set-up. With a time of 1m38.9, Dovizioso ended Wednesday at the top of the time sheets, ahead of his new team-mate Iannone, who was second in 1m39.0; their times remained unbeaten today.