Axel Bassani ended th♏e final day of the two-day Jerez WorldSBK test fastest overall on the new Bimota.

The🐎 Italian was pleased with his start on the new motorcycle that will make its competitive debut next year, even if he had💎 to “discover everything” about it in Jerez.

“It’s been a really goo♎d first day ⛎with the new Bimota,” Bassani concluded when speaking to WorldSBK.com at the end of the Jerez test.

“It’s 💞been not easy in the ♊first part because it’s a completely new bike. We had to discover everything.

“But I think we did a really good job; the team worked really good;🔯 the bike was feeling nice, I’m feeling good.

“So, I’m happy. We have a loꦐt of wo𒁃rk to do, but for the moment we are doing a really good job.”

Bassani’s be🥂st time of day two of the test not only put him fastest on the day, but was also a significant impr🐬ovement over his Superpole time from the Spanish round last weekend.

“It’s been half-a-second faster than my Superpole last week𝔉end here in Jerez,” he said.

“So, this means my feeling with the bike is good, I can push, but we have a lot of work to do, it is only the start of a new era with Bimota. Bu💦t, when you start good, it’s always nice.”

While Bassani was pleas♓ed with the beginning, he thinks there is a lot of room for improvement.

“Everything was all completely new” he said. “We start from zero, and I tღhink in not a lot of time Bimota did a really good job.

“Now we have some more tests to do, and I think during the winter they can do some steps on the bikꩲe.

“We have to be happy for this start, but we have to stay calm and try to understand what 🦋we need, and try to improve for next year.”

Although🐼 the Bimota uses the same engine as the Kawasaki Bassani rode in 2024, the new bike has different characteristics꧒, as he explained.

“It’s quite different because we h🌱ave the wings, and the chassis is completely different,” he s🗹aid.

“It’s like to ride a different bike but with the same engi🐲ne: it’s strange because the sound is t🦹he same but the feeling is not the same.

“They are two different things. The Kawasaki was a good bike, but the Bimota is a bike of a ꦚnew era, so it’s good for us.”