Marc VDS Racing's Scott Redding had hoped to be closer to the top in Sepang 💖but a fast lap by Marc Marquez on ꧃Wednesday left the British prospect one and a half seconds down on the world champion's benchmark.

Redding had closed the deficit to the top of the leaderboard to under a second on Tuesday and was left disappointed by the gap to the fastest riders as 🦂the test wrapped♒ up in Malaysia.

"I'm n♔ot really satisfied that the gap to the front increased today [Wednesday;] yesterday we werꦇe under a second away, but today we're 1.5s off," said Redding.

"On a more ♔positive note, I've learnt a lot about the bike and my riding style, especially under braking and on corner entry, and my lap times have been consistently in ✱the two-minute bracket.

"I was lacking traction out of the slower turns; I felt good in the fast corners, but exiting the last co🦩rner ಌfor example I was struggling to find grip and lost a bit of time," he added.

"My target for this test ⛎was a lap time of 2m 00.4s so we missed that by a few tenths, but I'm happy enough with what we've achieved over the three days here."

Redding ended the tes🐓t 16th fastest overall on the RC213V, one place ahead of Aspar Honda's Nicky Hayden on the RC🌱213V-RS, who was only 0.118s behind on the Open class machine.