Alvaro Bautista gave Aprilia's new seamless gearbox its first public running on Monday at Jerez with the Spaniard using hte new part during testing. Afterwards Bautista said that it was not dissimilar to the Honda seamless when he first used that. Aprilia test rider Michael Laverty spent three days prior to Jerez testing the new gearbox before giving it the thumbs up for the race squad to assess. “I'm so happy with the first feeling because I rode with the Honda seamless and this is not too far from it,” said Bautista. “On downshift we have to improve a little bit, but to [upshift] on the straight is quite similar to Honda. “We have to improve in the braking because with the Honda...
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