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Brookes expects "significant" gains after maiden WSBK test

British Superbike champion Josh Brookes says he expects to make "significant" performance gains after completing his first World Superbike test at Jerez. After two part-time campaigns in 2006 and 2007, Brookes takes on a full WSBK season for the first time with the Shaun Muir-run Milwaukee BMW team in 2016. His first outing on the bike came in collective testing at Jerez, where the Australian finished 10th, and he feels that the team can expect to make a big step when it returns to the track next week at Aragon. “I’ve adapted to the bike quickly, and I can feel that it has a lot of potential," said Brookes. "In that rider-bike relationship you get an instinct of...
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