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

Haslam was second-fastest at the second test of the 2025 BSB preseason at Donington Park, behind only Glenn Irwin o♒n 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 mahbx.com after♉ 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 very c☂ompetitive and we learnt a lot with the bike.”

Despite the 𒅌limited time, Haslam was firmly positive about his early impressions of the Ducati Panigale V4 R.

“Really good,” the 2018 B⛦SB Cham💙pion said of his new bike.

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

“To be already P2 and not real🎃ly 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 Oulton Park on 23–24 April.

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

“So,♓ everything at the minute is a little bit new and it’s ❀just for me to figure it out.”

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

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