With two rounds and four races remaining, Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea clinched the 2016 WSBK Championship with a fourth place in the first leg at Jerez, Spain, yesterday. The Championship was Rea’s first, and in only his first season with the Kawasaki factory team following six years on Honda-supported CBRs. A win in race one by Rea’s teammate, Tom Sykes, also helped lift Kawasaki to the manufacturers championship, Kawasaki’s first in World Superbike competition.
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Pirelli, for its part, finished the weekend at Jerez with encouraging signs and important information to continue its development operations. Contributing to improving the race time by about six seconds with respect to 2014 was positive, as well as allowing Jonathan Rea and his team mate Tom Sykes to respectively set the new lap record and the new track fast lap. In the meantime the riders will already have various new solutions for the rear available to them for the tests scheduled for tomorrow, but above all there will be new front solutions that could prove to be very important for improving the current range.
In Superbike various solutions were used by the riders. On the front the most popular tire in both races was the S1699 SC1 development solution, the one most used in 2014 and 2015. In fact, this option provides greater support going into turns which favours a more precise ride. The début of the new T1616 was also good, an SC1 compound tire that had never before been brought to the races but which the riders had tested during the tests at Portimão in June and which was quite popular here at Jerez thanks to its greater stability and precision with respect to the standard SC1. Six riders in all used this second solution, including the two Kawasaki standard bearers, Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea.
On the rear the two available solutions were more or less equally popular with the riders. Chosen by about 3/5 of the riders, the T0611 SC0 development solution was introduced at Imola and then also brought to Portimão, Misano, Laguna Seca and Sepang. It uses a very soft compound which is able to provide an extremely high level of grip if used at high temperatures. On the first four rows of the grid all the riders used this solution with the exception of Canepa, Baiocco and Salom. The riders who did not use this tire opted for the Standard SC0.
The 2015 Pirelli statistics for the Jerez round:
• Total number of tires Pirelli brought: 4282
• Number of solutions (dry, intermediate and wet) for the Superbike class: 5 front and 5 rear
• Number of tires available for each Superbike rider: 35 front and 29 rear
• Number of solutions for the Supersport class (dry, intermediate and wet): 5 front and 5 rear
• Number of tires available for each Supersport rider: 24 front and 26 rear
• Temperature in Race 1: air 25° C, asphalt 29° C
• Temperature in Race 2: air 29° C, asphalt 43° C
• Maximum race speed reached by Pirelli DIABLO™ Superbike tires: 276.9 kms/h, in Race 1 by Jordi Torres (Aprilia Racing Team – Red Devils) at 9th lap.
• Maximum race speed reached by Pirelli DIABLO™ Supercorsa tires in Supersport: 245.5 kms/h, by Kyle Smith (Pata Honda World Supersport Team) at 2nd lap.
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