168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez took advantage of an exception to the MotoGP rules and raced without wings on his Trackhouse🌜 Aprilia last Sunday at Phillip Island.

While the strict MotoGP homologation re𒁏gulations mean fairing design can only be modified once per season, ‘At certain circuits, for safety reasons it will be permitted for teams to remove the side pods from the aero body.’

Phillip Island is the only track on the present calendar where removal of the aero is allowed, due to past concern🅠s over strong crosswinds.

The wind was not a significant issue last Sunday, and some riders believe the ex𓄧tra downforce helps with stability in such conditions, but Fernandez and Aprilia still chose to remove his sidepods to gather data on how the RS-GP performed wit𒆙hout aero.

The experiment didn’t start well with Fernandez plumm🦋eting from sixth on the grid to 17th. But he then worked his way back up to ninth before losing a place to Fa🌠bio Quartararo in the closing stages.

Fernandez was less than thr🐬ee-seconds behind the fully winged RS-GP24 of Maverick Vinales, in eighth place.

“It was a nice s꧑urprise,” Fernandez said at Buriram in Thailand on Thursday. “We understood a lot of things about the bike, that now we're struggling [with] a lot. So it was a good test for the future.”

The Spaniard confessed to being surprised a🍌t how competitive he was.

“I did 5 laps in the morning with no wings and then I🏅 was directly into the race. The first lap I was 17th because our start is not the best thing in the bike. But after that, the pace was really good, really💙 competitive,” he said.

“I saw all that almost all the race the distance to the top 4 was the same, so the pace was more or less to be there. With the bad start, I couldn't fight there, but the pace w👍as to be there. So really happy.”

Fernandez, who made his MotoGP debut with Tech3 KTM in 2022, had never ridden a MotoGP bike without ꦏwings before.

“It was like a joke in the middle of the season to say, ‘maybe in a test we can try the bike with no wings’. But at the end, in Phillip Island, it was n💟ot a joke!” he said.

“It's different to ride the bikꦡe. Because of that, lap by lap🍌 I felt better. And my last part of the race was quite fast.”

While aero helps with anti-wheelie, turning and braking pꦬerformance, Fernandez said that without the downforce parts the physical effort required to change direction was “zero”

“Always after the ܫrace weekend and the long race, I feel super tired. But I finished the [Phillip Island] race and I told the team, ‘I can do another race if you want!’

“It's amazing. It'ꦰs 'zero' physically, the bike and that is something that maybe we need to work on more for the future [aero design].”

A♐pril💝ia test rider and stand-in team-mate Lorenzo Savadori revealed he has also tried the RS-GP without wings, during private testing.

The Italian explained that the fast and flowing Phillip Island layout mea꧂ns the usual aero benefits don’t apply.

“Phillip Island is a special track, unique, a lot of high speed. There isn’t a hard braking. In a normal track, of course, I🅰 prefer a lot the wings,” Savadori said.

“The wings a lot on braking, entry, wheelie, and in general it’s better in every place. But Raul was fast in Phillip Is💙land, so it was a good result for him and also the engineers have some data [to ꦬconsider for the 2025 aero].”