New Repsol Honda rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini joked that he was surprised to discover someone was behind him during the Qatar MotoGP race.

After qualifying ahead of only Franco Morbidelli, then finishing 21ꩲst and last in the Sprint, Mar🥂ini was briefly 19th on the opening lap of the grand prix.

But the trio behind soon overtook, leaving Marini surprised to find out ♌that a🌟nother rider was still behind him.

“I saw on my pit board someone was behind me, and I said, 'why? Who?'” Marini smi🍸led.

The rider in question was Red Bull KTM’s Jack Miller, who crashed out of the top ten at the start of lap 2, before catching back up to🎃 Marini by lap 10 of 21♋.

The Italian then tried to exploit theꦅ situation by s🥂tudying the Australian’s RC16.

“I let🐟 him pass and tried to follow him, also to not take any risk going below with the tyre pressure [after the delayed start],” Marini said.

“I tried to understand something beౠhind him, because the KTM now is really strong and has improved a lot froಌm last year.

“I think that something positive comes in my mind, and it's clear for me what we neeℱd to do, but we need a little bi🍌t of time to try more fixes.”

Marini spent seven laps behind M♈iller before re-passing the Australian and, although Miller lamented that he was losing the front and rear whenever he tried to push, Marini still spotted a clear grip difference over the Honda.

“I think that Jack was not in his best shape but sure, they have a lot of rear grip, especially in the last part of the entry, and th🤡ey can make the bike turn in an easier way in the middle of the corner using th෴is rear grip, and also touch the gas and keep turning,” Marini said.

“This is somethi꧃ng that we are struggling the most, especially myself. So this is the grip in the rear, but especially starting from the [corner] entry. The entry phase lets the bike༒ turn better than my bike.”

The laps spent in Miller’s slipstream also al♛lowed Marini to understand how dirty air changed the Honda's aerodynamics.

“I could make the corners with [clear] air, [dirty] air, so I could understand very well the wings effect and the downforce that we have. I think we need to re-balance a little bit the bike, this for sure will help o🍒ur 🍒performance.”

Johann Zarco was♊ꦕ the top Honda rider in twelfth place, with Marini’s team-mate Joan Mir in 13th.

The pair were 18 seconds behind Ducati race winner Francesco Bagnaia but a huge 24 seconds clear of Marinꦯi, who had a ‘litt🦄le’ technical issue in the race.

“So for t🏅his, my pace was slow. But even without that issue maybe I couldn't fight for a good position as my 💧team-mate did,” Marini confessed.