IN
THE
WIND
P44
PJ Jacobsen is
steadily adapting
to his flashy
new Honda in
WorldSBK.
TRIPLE M HONDA WORLDSBK GETS GOING
T
he 2018 adventure of the Triple
M Honda WorldSBK team,
with their rookie WorldSBK rider
PJ Jacobsen on board, took to the
track with their new bike and Mag-
neti Marelli electronics package in
place at on the first day of Porti-
mao's WorldSBK two-day test.
"It is pretty good and we have a
lot of stuff to work through, but we
have been achieving a lot," said
Jacobsen midway through his first
experience of his new bike and a
team moving up from Superstock
racing. "The team is going great
and I am quite happy about how
things are progressing."
Setting a 1:47.160 with just under
two hours of the day to go, he is
still very much getting used to all
aspects of his new ride for 2018,
so he has not been using many
rider aids. "We are working on the
electronics and we started with a
kind of base setting. Everything
is pretty much turned off. We are
starting from scratch, which I think
is the best way to do it. We will be
putting in the anti-wheelie and trac-
tion control, eventually. We are not
at that stage yet. It is just going to
take some time."
The asphalt roller coaster of Por-
timao may not be the ideal venue to
be introduced to your new 200-bhp
Superbike at, for many riders at
least, but Jacobsen was excited by
it rather than intimidated.
"We have to come back here so
it does not really matter," he said.
"I feel like this track has so many
different corners, and characteris-
tics to them, that it is probably good
to set up your bike. It is a physical
track and pretty crazy on the Super-
bike, but it is good."
Gordon Ritchie
