With a base in the Netherlands and riders from Northern Ireland and Spain you would expect that the Castrol Honda WSBK team would choose a European circuit as their designated test track.

Not a bit of it, as they will shortly be heading off to America for a two day test at the next circuit on the championship trail, Miller Motorsports Park in Utah...

Each team has to pick one of the current WSBK venues as a designated test track, and they are only allowed to test at that track (or other venues that do not host WSBK rounds) through the season.

With so many other available non-championship circuits in Europe to choose from, and finding significant issues with set-up at the crucial mid-season venue of Miller last year, the team made the radical choice of making Miller their test track this year.

They will all be heading to the USA soon, as the two-day test is scheduled with regular riders Jonathan Rea and Ruben Xaus from Sunday 22 to Monday 23 May.

Miller is a unique circuit in many ways, including being the one with the highest altitude and therefore the thinnest air of any current WSBK track - always a specific challenge to overcome when so much available horsepower is lost in the thin mountain air.