Ducati confirm how much ballast has been added to Alvaro Bautista’s bike
Ducati have confirmed that six kilos has been added to the two-time WorldSBK cham🃏pi𒅌on’s Panigale V4 R.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alvaro Bautista was not his usual self at the two day Jerez WorldSBK test, finishing 16th while team-mate Nicolo Bulega was top for the second dayও runni✃ng.
But the rei🐟🤪gning world champion, who has recently overcome injury issues, spent much of the test playing around with the weight changes on his bike.
As part of the new combined minimum weight for rider and bike, Bautista and Ducati needed to add excess weight, and the Italian brꦰand has confirmed👍 exactly how much.
Ducati Corse tec𝓀hnical coordinator, Marco Zambenedetti told WorldSBK.com: “It’s quite easy, we’ve added 6kg more or less. Alvaro changed his training system, tried to get a bit more 🧸mass. The point is it’s 6kg. About where is a lot more complex.
“We are testing something that moves. First, we’d like to give him back the best feeling. The bike isn’t lꦆast year’s bike, we must forget about this, but try to give him a ballast configuration that isn’t so bad.
“We are working on this. We haven’t defined it at this moment. On the other side, we’re als꧅o working on engine configuration with fuel consumption and biofuel which is another big, important area to work.”
Zambenedetti also admitted that Ducati has other i🔥dea🐭s of how to add weight to Bautista’s bike, so changes could be made at the Portimao test.
“We have a lot of ꦐideas and theories, but we are here just to test this. At this moment, we💖 haven’t got a clear idea which is the best,” added the Italian.
“Before Australia, or in Australia, we 𒁃will close this experiment and we’ll start to work on a particular configuration. Today, we’re not testing both directions.
“We are improving a bit one direction, but we need to make a double check also in Portimao. It’s important that we have a ref🍎erence at different tracks.”
