Suzuki MotoGP test rider and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Gu꧑intoli has answered a familiar question to any track day enthusiast or motorsport fan – just how fast is a street bike on the track?

Having previously revealed the secrets behi🔯nd the MotoGP leg dangle, the ultra-experienced 37-year-old headed to his local circuit Donington Park – before the coronavirus🐲 shutdown – to put the Suzuki GSX-R1000R through its paces to see how quick he could g🐼o compared to the dedicated race bikes.

Guintoli sticks to a completely standard Suzuki Superb𓃲ike, only changing the tyre pressures from the required pressures on the roads, to provide a safe level of grip when flying around the Leicestershire circuit. The Suzuki rider puts in a best lap t꧅ime of 1m 37.50s despite the chilly and windy conditions.

“My best lap time was a 1m 37s which is a pretty good time around Donington Park with conditions not great as we had about five degrees track temperature and it was quite windy. I reckon on a great day I could have maybe shaved a couple of seconds o🦩ff.

“How does it compare? Well, we’ve got World Superbike lap ti🙈mes from last year around 1m 27s-1m 28s during the race and the MotoGP lap ཧrecord is a 1m 27.6s set by Dani Pedrosa back in 2006.

“So we are about 10 seconds off which is not a lot considering we’ve got a road bike on road tyres, it is not a lot at all, we didn’t do🅘 any modifications on the bike at all, no setup or suspension changes. I was really surprised to be so close.

“We adjusted the tyre pressures be𝓰cause that makes a huge difference, you have really got to do that when you go to the track as it is very, very different from the road pressures. That is the only thing we d🥂id.”

Check out the highly informative video on Guintoli’s YouTube channel as he offer🦄s up unique insight into racing from his own experiences – an ideal way to spend time during the ongoing shutdown until𝕴 racing and normal life can resume.