Jake Dixon has begun pre-season preparations for the new Moto2 campaign with a promising two-day testing session at Portimao.

Dixon, who this year competes for Elf Marc VDS Racing after switching from Aspar Team, joined team-mate Filip Salac in Portugal to put the 2025 Boscoscuro chassis through its paces.

The Dover rider ended day one eighth-quickest with 1min43.072sec before posting the second-fastest time of 1.41.281 on day two, beating Manu Gonzalez’ lap record set last season by almost 0.3sec.

“It feels great to finally get out on track with the Elf Marc VDS Racing Team and this was a very important two days for us,” Dixon said.

“It’s my first time riding the Boscoscuro chassis after a few years with Kalex and there are definitely a lot of positives but also some points we need to work on.

“I’m not really sure what I expected from the bike, but I have to say the Boscoscuro really exceeded my expectations, so I’m really happy about that.

“We did a lot of consistent laps and tried a lot of changes to try and understand the bike and we were constantly improving.”

Official testing will be held at Jerez this week with the opening round of this year’s championship in Thailand from February 28-March 2.