After a partial 2023 marketing campaign on a Honda, highlighted by a pair of podiums at Manufacturers Hatch, the 2015 Moto3 world champion was eager to get to know his new group and bike.
Day one was spent familiarising himself with the R1 earlier than the group launched numerous elements over the next days.
“It’s been an incredible 4 days’ testing right here in Spain, I’ve beloved driving the McAMS Racing R1,” mentioned Kent. “A robust relationship with a group is all the time constructive and I really feel like we’ve received off to a robust begin there.
“I’ve achieved numerous laps on the bike this week and I’m actually beginning to gel with the R1; it’s beginning to really feel like my bike now.
“General, it’s been an excellent take a look at and I’m very comfortable so an enormous due to Mar-Prepare for organising the take a look at this winter as we’ve actually benefitted from doing this.”
Kent shouldn’t be the one new arrival at Mar-Prepare with Chris Anderson becoming a member of the squad as crew chief from the previous BSB-winning Raceways McAMS Yamaha group.
“It’s been good to get Danny on the bike once more after Bishopscourt as there wasn’t an enormous quantity to study there because the situations weren’t nice and we’ve constructed an entire new bike for this take a look at,” Anderson mentioned.
“We received by way of a whole lot of take a look at elements to offer us a little bit of a course for 2024 and discovered what Danny likes, what he doesn’t like and so forth and the way he works as a rider. Now we’ll head again to the workshop the place we’ve just a few issues to work on as we prepare for 2024.”
With the BSB take a look at ban beginning on January 1 till April, the group’s subsequent outing would be the official BSB take a look at at Donington Park in early April.