Christian Iddon’s Donington BSB test was “more difficult than I expected” having found a drastically different feeling o🔥n the Ka🧔wasaki ZX-10RR at the Midlands track compared to the Navarra test.

Iddon, who mov♌ed 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.

“[It was] more difficult than I expected,” Iddon told mahbx.coඣm 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 interest꧟ing one, I didn’t anticipate that at all.”

He added: “It really caught m📖e off-guard, to be honeဣst, how different it felt [at Donington compared to Navarra].

“Of course bikes feel different track-to-track – different [surfaces], different amounts of grip, different layouts – but it was rea💫lly night-and-day.”

The new arrival to FS-3 Kawasaki at least felt he was able to make progress towards the end of the Donin💜gton test, although inconsistent weather frustrated his hopes of a final time attack in the last session.

“By the end of�🐭� the test we made really good progress; 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 been nice to break that barri🐷er, 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 the conditions haven’t been ideal for anyone – it☂’s been frustrating really: not enough water to make it wet, but too much wat▨er [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 ou🅷t how to adapt, 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 can adapt. Then, once I’ve finished the adaptatiꦏon 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 dܫone [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 ahea𒅌d to the final preseason 𒈔test at Oulton Park, Iddon was hoping to find some consistency between 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 i🦹t’ll be a little bit 📖of an eye-opener, so I hope that doesn’t happen,” he said.

“But [by then] we will have done three completely different types of track so we would’vꦅe 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 bike out of the garage at Oulton and it’ll work, but I’m not daft, I know that doesn’t always happen – there’s always some fine tun💯ing to do.”

Iddon adde🤡d 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 of working, and we’ve moved back towards it here, which shows that I needꩲ to understand the bike more,” he said.

“I tried not to change anythi⛄ng i🦹n Spain and we hardly did anything, but now we’ve basically reverted back [from] what I’d got them to do.

“It shows that I’m starting to understand the bike. It’s a very well-developed bike, they know ꦡ💛where it works, they know the window it works in.

“I need a liܫttle bit of assistance to get myself comfortable, so we had to cha💎nge 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.”