McAMS Yamaha’s Jason O’Halloran worked his way through a raft of new parts and settings at the Silverstone Bennetts British Superbike test, setting the fastest time on day one.

Having enjoyed a more productive opening day than his team-mate, O’Halloran turned to longer distance runs on the final day to evaluate the team’s new components for 2021, which include a revised 2021 engine spec, new exhaust, revised geometry and new swing-arm.

In a 20-lap run in the penultimate session, O’Halloran set his quickest lap times of the test on both 19 and 20 – which launched him to the top of the timesheets at that stage.

He’d later return to the track on the same rear tyre, bettering his lap time on the rear’s 31st lap to set a 53’350 – good enough to end the test fifth overall.

“The first day couldn’t have gone any better for us. We focused on trying the new engine on day one and turned our focus to the chassis on the second day,” said the Australian.

“I was a bit nervous about changing the chassis as we didn’t change a lot last year, I’d ridden the same bike all year and we had a good year so it took me a bit of time to adjust to it.

Once I started to use the benefits of the new settings, it started to come to me and I started to feel really good. We just worked through our programme, got through everything we needed to get through.

“In the third session I did a long run and set my best lap on the last lap of the run. We came in, made a few changes and went back out and bettered that time again and by that point the tyre had done 31 laps.

“To be doing 53’3 with 31 laps on a tyre is exactly where we need to be for race day here. The final session was just a bit too sketchy for me, as nice as it would have been to have stuck some fresh rubber in and gone for a time.”