Ellison making progress with Showa development

JG Speedfit Kawasaki’s James Ellison has left the squad’s latest Spanish test pleased with their continuing development of their brand new Kawasaki ZX-10R.

Working with a whole new bike in 2016, the MCE British Superbike veteran nonetheless says that the biggest change they’ve encountered so far hasn’t been the new chassis and engine package but the switch form Ohlins to factory-backed Showa suspension.

“We have had two days last week at Jerez and now the two days at Aragon. We are really starting to find a good direction now with the Showa suspension as that was the biggest change for the JG Speedfit Kawasaki team this year, so that has been a main focus. We have been looking at the parameters of the suspension as it is all new to us and we have found a good direction today.

“We went quite a bit quicker than we did here at the last test in November and got real close actually to the World Superbike guys on race tyres, so that was something I was quite pleased with, and again all three of us were pretty close as well so we are all focused now on the next test and what we can improve. For me it has been a successful and positive test before our next test at Cartagena; I am really happy with how it has gone.”

The test sees their team’s final outing alongside their Team Green factory World Superbike counterparts Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes, who will now continue on to Australia for the opening round of their season as the BSB team return to Spain for further testing early next month.