This time, the secret had been well kept, unlike the first test gallop in Aragon taken almost on the spot. Between Jonas Folger and Kalex, work continues to develop the future motorcycle with a Triumph engine and Magneti Marelli electronic control unit. The German thus performed during the IRTA tests of Brno. An opportunity that was impossible until recently...
Indeed, it had been said that the preparations around the new Triumph engine with a view to a 2019 season which will therefore no longer be done with the 600 Honda engine, should, in no case, be linked to IRTA tests. The reason is simple: to avoid hasty comparisons between the performances of the two engines.
And yet, in Brno, we saw for two days a Jonas Folger in the company of MotoGP riders Honda Repsol, LCR, Marc VDS, but also the Moto2 teams Marc VDS and Idemitsu. Only Hondas, therefore, who were able to observe and listen to English mechanics instead of their own...
The result given is that Folger regularly achieved times of 2'03, which is very encouraging when we know that the pole position in the category in 2017 was the prerogative of Pasini in 2'02.611.
The CEO of Kalex, Alex Baumgärtel, said he was satisfied and reassuring since authorization for such an operation had been given to him in Assen. The German favors the assistance of his compatriot rather than that of Jesko Raffin. And for good reason: he knows the Magneti Marelli electronic control unit.
