Quote Originally Posted by madvlad View Post
WSBK teams and riders head to Jerez for a two day test. This test will be super important for US rider Garrett Gerloff so he can get acquainted with the new BMW bike given his first test was only a wet one and very limited due to crappy weather, so it will be interesting to see how he adjusts to the BMW in the dry. Race season slowly but surely gearing up!

https://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/202...0twoday%20test

Gerloff off the pace at 1.8sec behind. Petrucci is right at 1.0sec and the top three look to resume their battle again this year. Toprak, Rea and Bautista all within .180 of each other. Next closest is Rinaldi at .377 and then a huge gap to Lowes who's .906 off. Geez talk about lack of consistency. Sure it's testing but usually we see closer times in testing. Redding is 1.44sec off the pace and just four tenths ahead of Gerloff. Which tells me it's the bike more than the riders. BMW need to develop that bike, which in turn would help their riders get closer to the front.

Yeah, I'm itching for some racing. This winter has sucked and seems to be dragging out. WSBK is first at the end of February, Formula 1 ramps up first week of March and we have to wait until the end of March for MotoGP. So we've got just under a month until proper racing resumes.