Danny Kent “really starting to gel with the R1”

After a partial 2023 campaign on a Honda, highlighted by a pair of podiums at Brands Hatch, the 2015 Moto3 wor🦋ld champion was keen to get to know his new team and bike.
Day one wa🐲s spent familiarising himself with the R1 before the team introduced various parts over the following days.
“Itꦰ’s been a gr🍸eat four days’ testing here in Spain, I’ve loved riding the McAMS Racing R1,” said Kent. “A strong relationship with a team is always positive and I feel like we’ve got off to a strong start there.
“I’ve done lots of l💟aps on the bike this week and I’m really starting to gel with the R1; it’s starting to feel like my bike now.
“Overall, it’s been a very good test and I’m very happy so a huge thanks to Mar-Train for organising the test this winter as we’ve🦋 really benefitted from doing this.”
Kent is not the only new arrival at🍎 Mar-Train with Chris Anderson joining the squad as crew chief from the former BSB-wꦦinning Raceways McAMS Yamaha team.
“It’s been nice to get Danny on the bike again after Bishopscourt as there w💜asn’t a huge amount to learn there as the conditions weren’t great and we’ve built a whole new bike for this test,” Anderso🔯n said.
“We got through a lot of test parts to give us a bit of a direction for 2024 and learned what Danny likes, what he doesn’t like etc and how he works as a rider. Now we’ll head back to the🐷 workshop where we’ve a few things to work on as we get ready for 2024.”
With the BSB test ban starting on January 1 until April, the team’s next outing will be the official BSB te💫st at Donington Park in early April.
In this article

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story an🐷d Marc Marquez’s🗹 injury issues.