Kawasaki Racing's Tom Sykes has declared himself happy with his performance and the ZX-10R World Superbike follwing two days of testing at Spain's Almeria track where he set his fastest ever laps in the 2012-spec bike.

The Huddersfield youngster, who is entering his third WSBK season, spent the test fine-tuning his set up before the teams fly out to Phillip Island for the final pre-season test ahead of the first race at the end of next month. He set a 1'34.6 compared to team-mate Joan Lascorz's 1'35.1.

“It went very well because we arrived at another kind of circuit compared to the ones we have tested at before and the bike worked well straight away. After a big winter lay off it only took me ten laps to go faster than I have ever been at Almeria. I was happy with that," said Sykes.

"After that it was a case of testing some small items we had requested from KHI. It was consistently around 15 degrees in terms of track temperature and the sun was shining, so we could not ask for any more in January. The track was in good condition as well, just a bit dusty off line.”