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Silverstone BSB test: Solid base setting the key for Laverty

Tyco BMW's Michael Laverty is feeling confident going into the first race of the MCE British Superbike season at Silverstone, after a successful test at the track today. The Wales-based rider was second fastest in the combined times with a 2'06.304 lap.

Laverty did not go out in the morning session but ventured out this afternoon. His crew started off with a setting similar to the test in Almeria, but found almost immediately that the set-up did
not suit the English track, so the team reverted back to a set-up that he had in Cartagena and at the end of the 2015 BSB season - and it worked.

"We found some direction to improve the package and I am feeling good with the bike and quietly confident and I have a good chance at the start of the season. We worked hard on the race setting - but it is still not quite there for pulling off a one off lap  for qualifying which we need to practice ahead Q3 for next week. But we have covered most of the bases in testing and I am feeling good," said Laverty, speaking to bikesportnews.com from the track.

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"We are not taking too many chances here today, conditions are not perfect. We evaluated a different spec this morning that we finished the Almeria test with - and it didn't really work with this circuit so we are back to a base setting and hopefully that gives us a good starting point for FP1 next week. We have hit all of our markers - we had a good plan in place and we have gone through everything."

Laverty's team are only going to make 'little tweaks' to the S1000RR and are not expecting anything too dramatic for the bike, like the new swing-arm that his team had last year, but may change the linkages and engine spec throughout the opening few rounds.

Laverty added: "We have nothing major planned at the moment small things like a linkage maybe changed or on the engine spec or development with the electronics but nothing that will look dramatic from the outside like last year with the factory swing-arm. We wont be drastically changing the motorbike just fine tuning - just general things

"We went back to our base setting which we knew that we would probably end up racing with. We kind of had an idea that it would not suit the UK style circuits and we were proved right this morning. We went back to what we worked to at Cartagena which was not too far away from where we finished last season, just a few little tweaks."

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