Danny Kent’s BSB pre-season ended together with his eleventh quickest time at Oulton Park, 1.7 seconds off his prime time.
The TAS Racing Yamaha riders have endured a peak 2025 season the place pre-season testing, significantly the second check at Oulton Park, laid out a tough path for them, and ostensibly 2026 will proceed in an analogous course.
However Kent instructed that the check at Oulton Park wasn’t all dangerous as he was in a position to strive various things on the bike.
“It was excellent,” Kent instructed Crash.internet after the Oulton Park BSB check.
“It’s a bit like Donington, however we’re really making an attempt various things.
“After all, that place just isn’t the place we need to be, however the check is about making an attempt various things and making an attempt to implement the plan that we have now provide you with, not essentially on the prime.
“So I wished to strive every thing I wished to do, however I felt fairly assured going into the primary spherical.”
Kent added that if there was one space the place he want to see progress, it will be nook entry stability.
“We nonetheless must work on enhancing stability when getting into corners,” he mentioned.
“That’s most likely the most important difficulty I’ve in the meanwhile, however we have now a plan to attempt to resolve it within the first spherical.”
He added: It is principally like a rear grip on nook entry. It feels such as you rely an excessive amount of on the entrance brake reasonably than the engine brake.
“I attempted to exchange the engine brake, but it surely’s a effective line as a result of if the rear wheels aren’t touching the bottom or skimming, the engine brake is not really working.”
BSB will return to Oulton Park for the 2026 season opener from Might 3-5. Kent missed final 12 months’s October spherical on the Cheshire circuit and has not raced there because the opening spherical of 2025, when he completed with a 10-6 document in simply two races that weekend.
