Suz🌜uki MotoGP test rider and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli has answered a familiar question to any track day enthusiast or motorsport fan – just h♒ow fast is a street bike on the track?

Having previously revealed the secrets behind♏ the MotoGP leg dangle, the ultra-experienced 37-year-old headed to his local circuit Donington Park – before the coronavirus shutdown – to put the Suzuki GSX-R1000R through its paces to see how quick he could go compared to the dedic💟ated race bikes.

Guintoli sticks to a completely standard Suzuki Superbike, only changing the tyre pressures from the required pressures𝐆 on the roads, to provide a safe level of grip when flying around the Leicestershire circuit. The Suzuki rider puts in a best lap time of 1m 37.50s despite the chilly and windy conditions.

“My best lap time was a 1m 37s which is a pretty good time around Donington Park witཧh conditions not great as we had about five degrees track tempe❀rature and it was quite windy. I reckon on a great day I could have maybe shaved a couple of seconds off.

“How does it compare? Well, we’veꦜ got World Superbike lap times from last year around 1m 27s-1m 28s during the race and the MotoGP lap record is a 1m 27.6s s♏et by Dani Pedrosa back in 2006.

“So we are about 10 seconds off which is not a lot co🌃nsidering we’ve got a road bike on road tyres, it is not a lot at all, we didn’t do any modifications on the bike at all, no setup or suspension changes. I was really surprised to be so close.

“We adjusted the tyre pressures b𒊎ecause that makes a huge difference, you have really got to do that when you go to the track as it is very, very different from the road pressures. That is the o🔜nly thing we did.”

Check out the highly informative 🌄;video on Guintoli’s YouTube channel as he offers up unique insight into racing from his own experiences – an ideal way to spend time during the ongoing shutdown unt𒐪il racing and normal life can resume.