William Dunlop has completed his first test with the MSS Colchester Kawasaki team in Spain as the prepare for the 2016 roads season.

The experienced Northern Irish rider worked through a number of engine, chassis and tyre evaluations on the all new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R over 130 laps at the circuit with Nick Morgan. Dunlop logged his fastest ever time round the track, despite the bike being at the very start of its development cycle and cool track temperatures.

“It was a really positive test and important to get a good run of track time on what basically started out as a road bike with some suspension on it,” said Dunlop, who will also do selected Pirelli National Superstock 1000 rounds

“I would never have imagined to make my fastest ever laps around Cartagena on such a bike and to do that even with making changes and getting over small issues is a testament to the team. Nick and Jeb have so much experience on what makes the bike work that they made the job easy and enjoyable for me. As everyone knows if you’re enjoying riding you go fast. It’s quite funny as that was the first time I’d actually properly met Nick."