First test completed - NTC Test in Oschersleben

Last week the waiting finally came to an end. The Motorsport Arena Oschersleben played host for the official preseason test for the 2022 Northern Talent Cup season. In all, twelve sessions were completed across the two days of running.

For Luca „Lucky Luc“ Göttlicher a new chapter begins as he joins the JRP Junior Academy Team. New team, new bike and lots to set up work to be done before the season opener in May. We used the first two sessions to run-in the new engine, before moving on to getting Luca comfortable on the bike and finding a base setup. Despite some technical gremlins preventing us going for a time attack, Luca ended the first day of running in 18th position with a lap time of 1’39.6.

Following his positive adaptations to the bike and good steps in bike setup, Luca was able to fully focus on his feelings with the bike and managed to improve his lap time by over a second. Noteworthy in that was that he set his fastest lap towards the end of a 15-lap-long race simulation, which he even led for a while.

In combined times Luca finished on a solid 15th place overall at the end of the day and reduced the gap to the fastest to around 2.5 seconds.

Despite initial difficulties we leave Oschersleben with a good feeling and look forward optimistically towards this season, which gets underway alongside MotoGP in Le Mans in a few weeks time.