Courtesy of KRT – Kawasaki Racing Team
Kawasaki Puccetti Racing riders Kenan Sofuoglu and Marco Faccani found all the track time they needed to make final preparations to head to Australia for the first round of the 2015 FIM Supersport World Championship after two days of dry weather testing at Jerez in Spain.
During the Jerez tests, held on 26 and 27 January, each rider was able to make up for time lost at a previous weather affected session at Portimao last week.
Sofuoglu now has his 2015 engine spec chosen and after working well on his Ninja ZX-6R’s electronics system in particular, Sofuoglu is more than ready for the official tests and then the opening round of the championship at Phillip Island in Australia in February.
2014 Superstock 600 champion Faccani made great strides in adapting himself from a stock Ninja ZX-6R to his new full WSS machine. The 2015 season will be his full rookie year in the WSS class.
Kenan Sofuoglu: “This has been the most productive of all our tests, especially the final day. We started out just setting up the bike and working on it but on the final morning we worked on the forks and completely different electronics, which were incredibly improved. We are very happy with our general set-up now. Our single lap times were very fast, but more impressive was our race pace. If you compare our pace with the 2014 race we were much faster than anybody. It looks like we are heading in a good direction and now I can tell we are ready to go to Phillip Island.”
Marco Faccani: “The test went well and we tried a lot of solutions on the bike. The weather was really sunny each day so we had time to work. My lap time was quite good and we a lot of work finding good settings with the clutch and suspension. The test for me was very important because we only have two more days in Australia before the first round so it was important to get in a good pace as early as we could. I think I did around 70 laps on day one and 50 on the second day.”
Manuel Puccetti: Team Manger: “I am very happy about this double winter test in Portimao and Jerez. Our riders have done really good work on the bike and have tried many new parts; engine, electronics, brakes, clutch, suspension and more. Everybody in the team worked together with both riders to really improve the bike and now we are ready for a great season.”
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