‘Goalpost is always moving’ for BMW’s Redding

Factory BMW rider Scott Redding is pleased with the direction his M1000R is heading as the 2022 WorldSBK season approaches but is acutely aware that someone is always moving the goalposts in one direction or another.

Redding finished the recent Barcelona test seventh on the combined timesheet and although the former MotoGP rider is close to the leading pace, he admits there is still work to do.

“We have made some improvements with the bike and the electronics which is important for me and the team. Then we had to try a few test items, tried the different tyres to get a feeling, tried again the electronics,” said Redding.

“We worked a lot and we did make some improvements which is good. But the goalpost is always moving. You close the gap to the first one and then someone goes faster again. But we have to look at our situation, what we are doing and how we are improving. That’s where we need to focus.

“Then we had some rain in the afternoon of the second day which was interesting. It was good for me to get on the wet track and just get the feeling. It’s not too different to how it was in the past. I felt quite good.

“We need to do a bit more with the set-up and stuff but the temperature dropped quite a lot so we decided to test some other parts, practice starts a bit more because I haven’t done many starts on this bike and then we improved which was good.

“We also tried some other things for the conditions. In general, we did quite a lot but we still have more to do. We are moving on to Aragón, and I think we have some more things that we need to confirm there.”