As we saw yesterday, the Jerez de la Frontera circuit has been designated by all manufacturers as one of their three authorized circuits for private testing. Beginning on December 1st, the winter ban period is approaching, and this is why Ducati and Suzuki once again took advantage of the Andalusian track yesterday.
Ducati having already tested there with Michele Pirro At the beginning of the month, the Borgo Panigale firm did not consider it useful to participate in the days reserved last week for test pilots, and only focused on the two days of official IRTA testing J1 et J2.
For Suzuki, we can assume that Sylvain Guintoli is starting to be assimilated to a local pilot, since, as is often the case, the French pilot has had an extremely busy schedule: Present, last week, during the days reserved for test pilots, present during the days of the official IRTA test and present again yesterday during private testing after a quick stint at EICMA !
The two luminous men of the shadows shared the track with Alvaro Bautista, back in the Ducati Superbike fold after two years with the Honda team, Nicholas Bulega who discovered the Panigale V2 Supersport of the Aruba.it Racing Team with which he will compete in the 2022 Supersport World Championship, Bradley Smith on his Kawasaki from the Black Flag Motorsport team in the Italian Championship, as well as Niki Tuuli, Lorenzo Baldassarri et Bahattin Sofuoğlu for MV Agusta Supersport which had two F3 675s equipped with the F3 800 engine.
Nicholas Bulega
We publish the time rankings here. We see that if Sylvain Guintoli ran in a time similar to that of the official test (1'39.169 vs 1'39.040), which indicates track conditions that are undoubtedly just as acceptable, Michele Pirro in 1'38.560 remains quite far from the times achieved during the IRTA days, although the fastest yesterday.
There are 5 days left before the competition engines shut up for two months, but not the others, since Ducati will still be present in Jerez the first days of December, with MotoGP riders, but this time on the handlebars of the new Panigale V4 presented at the press…
Ranking of the private test of November 25:
Ranking of the official MotoGP IRTA test (November 18 and 19):
