Former World Superbike Champion Tom Sykes sat in the Kawasaki garage and watched new team-mate Jonathan Rea lap Motorland Aragon this afternoon, electing not to go out and take risks with a track temperature that didn’t get any higher than ten degrees.

The Huddersfield man saw Rea complete around 15 laps this afternoon but says he won’t lose any sleep about not getting out as it is January and the team still has a test at Jerez before they ship out to Australia.

“We are still in the middle of January and we got dealt this set of cards because of the cold weather, so we will move on from that. It would have been nice to have turned some wheels to try various things but I cannot lose sleep about this because we will be out on the bike at Jerez in a matter of days. We will hopefully try it all then,” he said.