Glenn Irwin on “rigorous” Ducati BSB testing programme: “We have a lot of stuff to test”
Glenn Irwin says it’s “nice” to have “quite a lot of stuff to🐟꧑ test” in the final year of the current generation Ducati Panigale V4 R.

Glenn Irwin has described his BSB tes𝓀ting programme as “✱rigorous” after topping both days of the Donington Park test.
Irwin’s time-topping performance at Donington followed on from the two-day test a🥂t the Circuito de Navarra, where he was also fastest.
The PBM Ducati rider focused on a new, lower seat unit in Navarra, bu🎐t had more new items to try on the Pa🍸nigale V4 R at Donington.
“Pretty good,” Irwin said of hi♍s Donington test, speaking to ltxcn.to💧p.
“I had quite a rigorous testing programme; we actually have quite a lot of stuff to test this year, which is nice, because obvio🐻usly the bike is in its final year. We just kind of stuck to the plan.”
About the new parts he had to try at Donington, Irwin also told BritishSuperbike.com that “We had more items in the locker to try [but] we’ll move them onto O🐬ulton Park because oಞne thing we were doing [at Donington] is being very scheduled and methodical.”
Irwin went under the BSB lap record on Friday, and then beat that time again on Saturday. But he sai𝔍d that the bike he had on Friday was his preference over the setup h♕e tried on the second day of the test.
“Although w♏e i💯mproved today and went stronger, today’s bike wasn’t as good as yesterday’s,” he told ltxcn.top.
“What’s pleasiಌng is we improved 🍒the bike today from this morning.
“As we went out for the final time, I said to the guys ‘If I was racing here tomorrow I would 📖race yesterd♚ay’s bike,’ so it’s pleasing that we managed to go quite fast on something that is definitely not my preferred choice, if you compare day one to day two.”

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