Michael Van Der Mark ‘a lot happier with new swingarm’ at Portimao WorldSBK test

The Dutch rider says his feeling at Portimao with the new swingarm was much better than at Jerez,💛 and left him ‘a 🍌lot happier’.

Michael Van Der Mark
Michael Van Der Mark

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Van Der Mark was over six tenths off WorldSBK team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu, but that didn’t tell the whole story.

The factory BMW rider was a consistent presence inside the top ten and showed strong pace tꦿhroughout.

Van Der Mark, who was left fuming after day two in Jerez following an incident with fellow B𝓀MW rider Scott Redding, continued development of the German manufacturer’s new swi𓂃ngarm.

Not happy with the results in Jerez, Van D🎀er Mark was much more content with 🙈the performance on day one in Portimao.

“We had a good day and our programme was jus🍌t to confirm the parts we tried at Jerez,” Van Der Mark tol♔d WorldSBK.com.

“We had two different bikes and did longer runs to do a full comparison. It was quite interesting; this is a different track a🍷nd the feedback from the parts was different to Jerez, so there’s a lot to think about.

“We tried a new swingarm; I had it in Jerez as 🦹well but this is a different 🥂track so we back-to-backed it here.

“I wasn’t happy with ♎it at Jerez but here, I’m a lot happier with it. If it’s working here, we can play with the setup aꦏnd make it work.”

When speaking about 🌞new parts BMW have left to try, Van Der Mark said adjustin▨g the set-up is more of a priority before the season-opener at Phillip Island.

“It’s difficult but we didn’t rea🌟lly try much with the set-up, just the parts,” said the five-time WorldSBK race winner. “If it’s working here we can play with the set-up to make it work.”

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