Alex Lowes says he made progress on the front end of the Bimota 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike machine at this weekend’s Portimao test.

Lowes spoke throughout the winter of his need to adapt his riding style to the characteristics of the Bimota KB998 for this season, and a step f🦩orward has seemingly been made at the in-season test at Portimao, where he finished the second day third-fastest and said he had the best feeling he’s had yet onꦍ the Italian machine.

“Today I felt good ♏on the bike,” Lowes told🌳 WorldSBK.com after the second day in Portugal.

“Honestly these two days have probably been the best I’ve felt so far on the Bimota, whicꦦh is positive and normal as we’re learning and improving it all the time.

“It’s a little bit of ꧂a shame about the weather as we’re still testing items rather than focusing on track-specific settings.

“I waꦍnted to do a long run and we had quite a few thing🅠s on the schedule but you can’t change the weather, so I enjoyed it, the guys did a fantastic job and we’re slowly improving.”

Lowes said that he had been focus𒁏ing on font feeling during day two, something which he had 🔯mentioned as a problem prior to the weekend.

“Today on the agenda, a lot of the focus was on the fro꧑nt of the bike,” he said on Saturday.

“Geome🃏try settings we hadn’t been able to explore, different stiffnesses on the front, some positive, some n𒁏egative.

“I think 𒈔we only managed [45 laps], so that was ജall we managed to get through.

“The main take away for the test was an improved feeling on the front of the bike, that was my target after Phillip Island where I didn’t feel like I could pass the other riders, so that was a positive.🍃”

Althoug🅺h there was progress on the front end, Lowes still felt there was margin to improve in terms of rear gr🉐ip.

“The negative is I st🌞ill need to impꦦrove the rear grip, especially on the fresh tires,” he said.

“I feel🎉 like from lap 10 onwards we’re real💖ly strong but we’re missing that initial lap time.

“In general, it’s been a p𒁏ositive test, I feel good going into the second round in Portimao.

“I hope to make a step forward on the results from Phillip Island. N🧸othing crazy, but we can improve on our results and work really hard, hopefully battling close to the top six.

“Who knows if we can achieve more than that, but first we ne✤ed t🐟o analyze the results from this test and put it all together.”