Leon Haslam’s switch from his own BMW setup to the Moto Rapido Ducati team was one of the major moves in the British Super🉐bike paddock to have been decided before the new year, and the Derbyshire rider saওys he is already “very confident” in his new bike.

Haslam was second-fastest at the second test of the 2025 BSB pre🎃seasonꦬ at Donington Park, behind only Glenn Irwin on the PBM Ducati.

Not only was Haslam happy with his position, but also with how he arrived to it, having been unable to do a final time attack on 🙈Saturday due to inconsistent weather.

“Obviously we only really got one session yesterday, we got caught out a bit with the weather,” Haslam told ltxcn.top a𒀰fter the second day of the Donington test.

“Today, we only really got [...] one-and–a-half sessions. So, not a massive amount of laps, but the laps that we did do we’ve been ve𒉰ry competitive and we learnt a lot with th⛄e bike.”

Despite the limited time, Haslam was firmly positive about his early 🦋impressions of the Ducati P💎anigale V4 R.

“Reall♒y good,” the 2018 BSB Champion said of his new bike.

“Obviously the bike’s there, it’s in the window, already proven. It’ജs more for me to get my head around the ne🀅w bike, the new team.

“💫To 💮be already P2 and not really having any time attacks and everything else, I feel very confident.”

Haslam added that he’d been able to try the same lower seat unit that Glenn Irwin had been testing since Navarra, and that tyre life will be his focus at the final preseason test at Oul🌼ton Park on 23–24 April.

“We’ve both [Haslam and Irwin] been trying the lower 🧔seat – I never tried the old one,” he said.

“So, everything at the minute is a little bit new and it’s just for me t🅰o figure it out.”

He added: “We’ve got to have a look at tyre life, I think everyone had a bit of an issue here wit𓄧h the new tyre.

“But I think Oulton will be a different story, it’s a very different circuit, very undulatiꦐng. At the minute, [...] I’ve not even done 100 laps on the bike, so [we need to go] step-by-step and we’ll see where we are at the test.”