RW Racing GP looks back on a total of eight days of testing with satisfaction. After Almeria, Valencia and Jerez the team achieved more or less what it wanted. Ana Carrasco and Scott Deroue finished the three days test in Jerez in 24th and 26th overall, with their fastest lap times set on day 2.
A cold and misty start of the third day prevented Carrasco and Deroue from getting on their Kalex KTM machines early. But they made up with 53 and 40 laps respectively in the afternoon.
Neither of them managed to improve the lap times set on day 2 – 1.48,155 for Carrasco and 1.48,725 for Deroue – but that was about the only stain. RW Racing GP team manager Jarno Janssen had hoped his riders could squeeze out a few flying laps. “Both Ana and Scott had very reasonable lap times, but no peak results. Perhaps they rode too much, making it a bit of a routine. On the other hand: there was nothing at stake yet. No pressure for a qualifying position, no race result. It’s good enough for now but I do believe both Ana and Scott can go faster.”
The team is on its way to the Netherlands already to get everything ready for the final test in Jerez (11, 12, 13 March) and the start of season. Straight from Jerez the bikes will be flown to Qatar, the United States, Argentina and back to Jerez. “So everything has to done by then”, Janssen explains. “The test in Jerez will be the last one with four races immediately after.”
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