Factory BMW rider Leon Haslam has found a good base setting for his S1000RR over the past three days of World Superbike testing at Phillip Island after exploring setup options in both the right and wrong directions.

Haslam, who set his fastest time on the Pirelli qualifying tyre which historically hasn't worked with the big BMW, has found settings for both hot and cool conditions - crucial at Phillip Island - and made progress with the bike's electronic system.

The test has been good and really quite positive. It was nice to be back on the bike in warm weather. We have come here with the base set-up of our new bike from Valencia, and it worked pretty much straight away. Over the three days we had time to figure out the base set-up of the new bike, and to find the settings for this specific track, as we are racing here next week," he said.

"Of course it is important to go fast around here, but it is also about exploring a little bit so you can make big steps in both directions to be able to understand what the bike is doing. I think we learned quite a lot. Also we had time to work on electronic strategies and we improved them a fair bit. The lap times were pretty good, we improved the consistency and were just trying a set-up in both cooler and hot conditions, which is quite important around here.”