{"id":308438,"date":"2025-11-25T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:34:10","slug":"jerez-worldsbk-test-marks-last-chance-to-learn-for-bimota-before-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308438\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerez WorldSBK test marks last chance to \u201clearn\u201d for Bimota before 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The final WorldSBK test of 2025 takes place this week in Jerez for several manufacturers, including for Bimota.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> manufacturers, like Honda and BMW, the test will be the start of its 2026 campaign, Bimota is among the factories \u2013 like Yamaha \u2013 who were already on-track in Jerez in October after the final round of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result, this week\u2019s test (26\u201327 November) will be a continuation of the work that started in October, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995628\/alex-lowes\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Lowes<\/a> is expecting some new pieces, and new \u201cideas\u201d, for this final test of 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s been nice to have a little break after the season, but now I\u2019m ready to get back to some track action with the guys in the team,\u201d said Alex Lowes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe have no new bike to develop this year, so it\u2019s more of a constant evolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI know we have some parts from Showa and also new ideas from my crew chief Pere [Riba] so that we can work in the areas we struggled with in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOur target before the winter break begins is to learn as much as possible about the areas we must keep looking into to improve the KB998 Rimini, so that we are ready for the start of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJerez is a circuit we know well, so it\u2019s a good place to test new parts and confirm if they are better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHopefully, the weather is acceptable and we can enjoy plenty of laps. Our plan is to ride for one day of the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995492\/axel-bassani\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axel Bassani<\/a> added that the test will be \u201csimilar\u201d to the one after the final race of 2025 in October.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe are still making plans of exactly what we will do in Jerez, but in some ways it should be similar to the last test we did there, immediately after the final race of the season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think this will be the last 2025 test before the winter break, so we will try to finish with a good feeling and try to understand where we need to focus our development programme on during the winter break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe will try to work with as little stress as possible. We will be calm and try to focus on the difficult areas we found in the 2025 season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As has been the case in most of Bimota\u2019s tests in 2025, the two days will see the riding split between test rider Xavi Fores and the two race riders, with Fores riding on Wednesday before Lowes and Bassani are on-track on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is our first outing with some basic points we have developed to try to make steps ahead in 2026 with the KB998 Rimini,\u201d Roda said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe plan to start with Xavi Fores on the first day and then with both Alex and Axel on the second day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBasically, we will check and evaluate some points on the bike with Fores, before confirming some things with our riders, due to the 10-day test limitation rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe weather forecast seems not so bad, and I\u2019m sure with many riders on track, we will see promising lap times \u2013 which should make for a nice show during this test.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final WorldSBK test of 2025 takes place this week in Jerez for several manufacturers, including for Bimota.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[147806,64,63,120859,120860,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-308438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-lowes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-axel-bassani","tag-bimota-by-kawasaki-racing-team","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}