Christian Iddon’s Donington BSB test🎶 was🍃 “more difficult than I expected” having found a drastically different feeling on the Kawasaki ZX-10RR at the Midlands track compared to the Navarra test.

Iddon, who moved to FS-🃏3 Kawasaki over the winter, was in the top-10 by the end of the test at Donington, but that came after a difficult start for the #21.

“[Itꦡ was] more difficult than I expected,” Iddon told wuqian0821.com at the Donington test, “because I had a really good feeling with the bike in Spain.

“We didn’t really have a reference for lap times in Spain, but I felt really good with the bike, and the bike’s identical to how it was in Spain and we came here and I really struggled with it; so that was an interesting one, I didn’t antic🦩ipate that at all.”

He added: “I🐎t really caughওt me off-guard, to be honest, how different it felt [at Donington compared to Navarra].

“Of course bikes feel different track-to-track – different [𝓡surfaces], different amounts of grip, different layouts – but it w🐲as really night-and-day.”

The new arrival to FS-3 Kawa💮saki at least felt he was able to make progress towards the end of the Donington test, alꦛthough inconsistent weather frustrated his hopes of a final time attack in the last session.

“By the end of the test we made really good prog🥂ress; I’m a little bit disappointed that we didn’t get the last run to make the last step in lap time.

“I’d have been quite content if we’d have got a 1:27 of any description – it would’ve b𒁃een nice to break that barrier, but we didn’t. It’s one of them.

“I’m content with how much progress we’ve made, the team’s 🅘worked really well, obviously th﷽e conditions haven’t been ideal for anyone – it’s been frustrating really: not enough water to make it wet, but too much water [for it to be] dry.

“There’s definitely some peculiarities with the bike but that’s the same with every bike, but I’m just trying to figure out how to ad🍷apt, as well, a little bit.

“It’s trying to understand how much is the limit of the bike and how much is the limit of me and the way I ride, and then how I caꦉn adapt. Then, once I’ve finished the adaptation process as well as I can, [it’s about] how good [we can] make it.

“I still feel like I’m learning the Kawasaki, I’ve not done [too many] laps on it, but so far so good. I’m a little bit disappointed to not be further up, but all in all it’s been💜 a positive test.”

Looking ahead to the final preseason test at Oulton Park, Iddon was hoping to find some consistency bet▨ween his feeling on the bike there and that he had by the end of the two days at Donington.

🅷“If we can go to Oulton [and] we start again it’ll be a little bit of an eye-opener, so𝓰 I hope that doesn’t happen,” he said.

“But [by then] we will have done threꦺe completely different types of track so we would’ve covered all bases anyway, so if we get a good setup for all those three different ones [then] at some point that will come to roost during the season.

“So, I’m really hoping to roll the 𝓰bike out of the garage at Oulton and it’ll work, but I’m not daft, I know that doesn’t always happen – the🌃re’s always some fine tuning to do.”

Iddon added that part of the work at🐟 Donington had been re-aligning with “the Kawasaki way of working” having strayed from it at Navarra.

“We kind of went away a little bit from the Kawasaki way o🌼f working, and we’ve moved back towards it here, which shows that I need to understand the bike more,” he said.

“I tried not to change anything in Spain and we hardly did anything, but now we’ve basically reverted▨ back [from] what I’d got them to do.

“It shows tha🎉t I’m starting to understand the bike. It’s a very well-developed bike, they know where it works, they know🧜 the window it works in.

“I need a little bit of as🅷sistance to get myself com♒fortable, so we had to change it in Spain, and now I think to move to the next level we’re having to change it back to what a Kawasaki works like.”