Third fastest at the Portimao WorldSBK test, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Lowes was mightily impressive as he built on a strong outing at Jerez, where he again outpaced new team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Axel Bassani.

Lowes, who finished just over three tenths off Toprak Razgatlioglu, said most of pre-season testing has be༒en abou♛t ironing out Kawasaki's problems over long runs.

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And the Brit is confident they’ve found im💃provements: “Here, Jerez and the end of last ꦏseason we’ve been working really hard on used tyres, long runs,” Lowes told WorldSBK.com.

“It’s an area where we’ve been struggling. Today was the first time we used a qualifiyng tyre and ♋I was able to do a good lap, my best ever lap at Portim🌺ao.

“This means that the work we🐷’re doing is working. My pace was strong today. Think I had a really stron꧙g pace, enjoyed riding the bike and did 90 laps.

“We’ve made a step there and made the bike easier to ride. It was good if you got every𓂃thing right but the window to ride was quite small.

“Weꩵ’ve opened thatꩵ window up a bit. We can be excited about the first round.”

But while the impr🔜ovements on Lowes’s side of the garage have been cಞlear, Bassani has struggled so far to adapt to the ZX-10RR.

One rider who has jumped onto a new bike - although he was previously aboard the Panigale V2 in WorldSSP - is Nicolo Bulega, who finished second behind Razgatlioglu𓆏.

The factory Ducati rider has be༺en the star of pre-season testing, and Lowes was not surprised by the Italian’s performances.

“I expected Bulega to be strong,” added Lowes. “All the Ducatis but especially the fac♓tory Ducati is a speciꦯal bit of kit. Best bike on the grid I believe.

“And he’s a Supersport world champion and has always shown a lot 👍of promise.

“He’s where we would expect him to be. He’s not going to b🅺e slow.”