A crash for Andrea Locat🐓elli on the second day of this week’s two-day WorldSBK test in Jerez saw the Italian’s year ended early.

Locatelli crashed at turn seven, the first of the two fast left-handers in the third sector of the Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto. The Pata Yamah🔯a rider was okay, but was forced to miss some of his test programme.

“The rhythm with the race tyre was good,” Locatelli said in review of 🌞his se෴cond day in Jerez.

“It was a shame to have such a big crash thi♏s morning on the second day and miss some of the test programme. But, now we are looking forward and waiting for January so I can ride on my R1 ✨again.

“We have time to analyse the data from both days and make another upgrade to prepare the bike for four more days of testing in January — which will be important to finalise everything ready 🃏🦹for the season.

“We did 72 laps yesterday and in general for the first day I was happy, immediately with a good pace even thou⛄gh we were not in search of a fast lap time. It is important after a long time I have been with Yamaha 💎that we push to the maximum, no matter what the condition.

“If we can be fast immediately it can be a big adva🐠ntag🅷e for us both in testing and during the race weekends, in this area I have improved a lot.

“It is a step-by-step process overall in testing, we stay positive and I always believe that we can make a differeꦕnce 🌠in all the areas where we work.”