Michael Van Der Mark ‘a lot happier with new swingarm’ at Portimao WorldSBK test

The Dutch rid💮er says his feeling at Portimao with the new swingarm was much better than at Jerez, and left him ‘a lot 🎉happier’.

Michael Van Der Mark
Michael Van Der Mark

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Van Der Mark was over six tenths off WorldSBK team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu, but that didn’t tell the whole story.

The factory BMW 𝔍rider was a consistent presence inside the top ten and showed strong pace ღthroughout.

Van Der Mark, who was left fu🐷ming after day two in Jerez following an incident with fellow BMW rider Scott Redding, continued development of the German manufacturer’s new swingarm.

Not happy with the results in Jerez, Van Der Mark was much more content with the performance on da🔴y one in Portimao.

“We had a good day and our programme was just to confirm the parts we tried at Jerez,” V🐼an Der Mark told WorldSBK.com.

“We had two d🐈ifferent bikes and did longer runs to do a full comparison. It was quite interesting; this is a different track and the feedback from the part♊s was different to Jerez, so there’s a lot to think about.

“We tried a new swingarm; I ha🎃d it in Jerez as well but this is a different track so we back-to-backed it here.

“I wasn’t happy with it at Jerez but here, I’m a lot happier with it. If it’🍰s working here, we can play with the setup and make it work.”

When speaking about new parts BMW have l🎉eft to try, Van Der Mark said adjusting the set-🥀up is more of a priority before the season-opener at Phillip Island.

“It’s difficult but we didn’t rea𒀰lly try much with the set-up, just the parts,” said the five-time WorldSBK race winner. “If it’s working here we can play with the set-up to make it work.”

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