The postseason 🐻WSBK Jerez test is notable for Bimota b🥂reaking cover.

The rꦏebranded team - taking over from Kawasaki Racing Team - will race in the 2025 World Superb൩ike Championship.

The first sight of the&nbs𝓡p;Bi🌸mota KB998 on track came on Tuesday in Jerez.

Test rider Florian Marino completed 72 laps while next season’s race du🅷o Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani watched on♎.

M🎃arino used three different bikes on Tuesday, his bes♓t lap was 1’41.360s, and he was ninth-fastest overall.

Team boss Guim Roda said; “It’s been a sta🎐rting point with a lot of emotions. Straight away after the race weekend, we prepared everything on Monday and then jumped on track with the new bike.

“Of course, we’re still in a very early stage with the develop♐ment but it’s a good point to check the base bike and, from then on, start to improve.”

The only feedback so far ha🔴s come from test ride🃏r Marino.

Roda said: “We did part of the deve𒀰lopment with Florian so now it was just confirming all the items we asked Bimota to implement in the bike and in the mass production model they’ll produce.

“We checked here 🌺all these improvements and then starting from that ba❀se, we’ll keep working. There’s a lot of work to do.

“Now it’s time to give Florian the chance tꦓo check everything is working correctly and the riders go on it.”

Roda explained what Bimota will do🐠 on Wednesday, the second day of the test: “We’re working in this early stage to improve the bike, check the items to work on.

“We’re limited by the test days restrictions so we can’t use our riders to do this development plan, so we hಞave to work with Florian to do as many laps as possible.

“When everything is a bit more fixed, just use the riders at the correct🍬 time and correct moment to not use more t🎃est days than needed.

“The target will be, if possible, when everything goes well, let them make some testing laps but j🐽ust to understand the feeling.”

The Bimota KB998 will run with the same inline-four cylinde🦩r engine as the K♉awasaki ZX-10RR.

Four winglets at the front of the fairing maꦜke the Bimota stand out from its predecessor.

The all-black livery has a red fairing.