While 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales made a dramatic breakthrough with the 2024 Aprilia in Portimao, Trackhouse rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira felt🌠 he is s𒊎till taking ‘baby steps’ with the factory-spec machine.

After a tough pre-season and opening Qatar round, Vinales romped to a Sprint victory in Portimao🎶 and was on course for a grand prix podium until hitting gearbox problems.

The Spaniard’s last ꧑lap exit left team-mate Aleix Espargaro, who had shone onไ the 2024 RS-GP until Portimao, as the top Aprilia in eighth place, 1.5s clear of Oliveira.

“Real baby steps!” said Oliveira, when asked if he was progressing with the factory-spec bike. “Would h🦄ave liked something bigger.”

Th🐼e Portuguese, who crossed the finish line 24s behind race winner J🍌orge Martin (Pramac Ducati), added: 

“The feeling I have is good. I'm fully adapted to the Aprilia riding style and everything, but just 🙈the bike is not working as it should do and it's quite f✤rustrating. But we need to keep working and try to find a way.”

While Espargaro has somet🔯hing of a unique riding sty🅷le, Vinales’ Portimao breakthrough could provide vital clues for Oliveira.

“Luckily we had an Aprilia winning the Sprint which cꦬan allow us to compare the data,” Oliveira had said on Saturday evening.

Although admit🔥ting Vinales is “for sure” a much closer match in terms of🐎 physical size and riding style, the five-time KTM MotoGP race winner was quick to credit the #12:

“It's not only the [data] comparison, Maverick is riding very well. He is effortlessly riding quite good, doing really nice pick-ups [out of the corners] and seems n𓃲ot to have so much trouble to go in fast into the corners.

“I think he just clicked with the bike and there’s no coming back! I ꦓthink he found the sweet spot for him and it's working. We are not there yet. I 💜think we are 95% there, but 5% now in MotoGP is a huge difference.”

The speed of Vinales’ turnaround, after barely breaking into the 🅷top ten in Qatar, also highlighted how quickly things can change in MotoGP.

“We know this is the category. One day you can be deep in the mud, the other day you can be com🐲pletely refreshed,” Oliveira said. “And this is it, you know. We have to keep fighting, persisti꧒ng and trying to find a way with the team.”

Oliveira will continue 🃏searching for the sweet spot on his 2024 RS-GP at the Trackhouse team’s home COTA round, this weekend.

Team-mate Raul Fernandez, the only Aprilia rider now on the 202𓂃3 spec bike💯, is still seeking his first points of the year.