The four-man Hannspree Ten Kate Honda World Superbike and World Supersport championship squad completed a two-day test at Assen in Holland yesterday ahead of next week’s eighth round races at Misano in Italy. It was the first track outing for the Ten Kate riders since competing at round seven of the 2010 championships at Miller Motorsports Park near Salt Lake City in the USA at the end of May. Jonathan Rea was almost fully recovered from the severe tyre burns he sustained in a qualifying crash at Miller and found himself quickly back up to race pace at the Assen circuit where he enjoyed his first World Superbike pole position and a maiden double race win in April. For Max Neukirchner, the Assen test provided a pressure-free environment in which to try to eliminate the chatter problems that have plagued him in recent weeks. The Hannspree Ten Kate Honda World Supersport riders, Kenan Sofuoglu and Michele Pirro, used th e Assen test to try new a new electronics package on their CBR600RR machines. Jonathan Rea My neck is like brand new now, after I did a stint in a hyperbaric chamber at home. The shoulder is taking a little longer to clear up but I’m sure it’ll be fine for next week in Italy. It didn’t affect my riding at Assen where we tried a lot of things to eliminate the chatter that we had in America. At least we now know what doesn’t work! I was able quite easily and quickly to lap at the same pace I had in the two race wins at Assen in fact, I did so many laps at that pace, it ended up feeling quite slow! I’m looking forward to going to Misano now and starting with a few of the problems that we had last year already solved. Max Neukirchner I did 91 laps on the first day and 90 on the second, so I feel like I know Assen quite well now! We definitely found som ething to get the suspension working a little bit differently and I tried the swingarm that Jonathan uses. However, we went back to my normal swingarm and found a better way forward with that. At the end of the test, I was going faster that my times in race two at Assen in April and we were able to get rid of some of the chatter. It’s not quite there yet but we definitely went in the right direction by putting a little more weight at the rear. I hope we can start the weekend at Misano in a better position when we will do a bit more work on the front forks. Ronald ten Kate – team manager We’ve had a very worthwhile two days at Assen where it was good to get the wheels rolling in Europe again after the last two flyaway rounds. We experienced some problems at Miller so we needed some track time to test a few things on the bikes. It’s been hard work for the riders and the crew but we’ve been able to try a fe w things on Jonathan’s side and we’ve definitely made a step forward with Max. We’re looking forward to Misano now, which is the first track of this season where we have some Ohlins data. On the Supersport side, we did a lot of work on the electronics, particularly in the areas of power delivery and traction control. We matched the race pace from Assen but it was incredibly windy on the second day. We’ll head to Misano next week to try and keep Kenan in his winning ways and to get Michele back on the podium at his home race.