Newly-crowned Moto3 World Champion Danny Kent mad turned his first laps on the Leopard Kalex machine on which he will contest the Moto2 championship in 2016 and is already 1.5s faster than he went there back in 2013 on the Tech3 Mistral bike.

Kent completed 88 laps over the two days and ended only two-tenths slower than fastest man Sam Lowes, also making is Kalex debut after switching to the Gresini team for next year.

“The first impression after my comeback to the Moto2 category has been very good. After a couple of laps I felt like being back home in this class and it took not a long time to set faster lap times than in my Moto2 season in 2013. In the end I was .,5 second faster than before at this track,” said Kent.

“So not only for this I’ve to say that the first feeling with the Kalex bike is really good. In general, it’s a great bike to ride and the support from Kalex we already are receiving is really excellent. However, this was just our first two-day test for the upcoming season so there is still a lot to learn for everyone in the team but also for my side I must working hard to change back my riding style to Moto2 in order to get closer to the front guys.

“Before heading into the two-month winter break it was important to do this two-day test here in Jerez so I can go back home now to start my fitness training with some slightly changes do the programme to come back in 2016 well prepared for our first Moto2 campaign."