The first day of the official Sepang MotoGP test was the third day of riding in Malaysia for Fabio Quartararo, who is running a one-word message in his co☂ckpi𒅌t as a reminder.

Quartarꦦaro was spotted having the word ‘smooth’ in his rider cockpit on the opening day in Sepang, something he said was a part of a conscious effort to change his riding style.

“It was last year that –  especially when we started to work on the electronicꦿs, I will say from Thailand – I clearly see the Ducati riding one way and I wanted to change completely the electronics, myself,” Quartararo said.

“My instinct [whe✃n I g💧o] on the track is to push like hell and to really maximise all the time the bike.

“But sometime💛s feeling slower makes you faster, so this I always have on my dashboard, the word ‘smooth’, that makes me remember always to keep calm on the bike.”

Overall, Quartararo was positive about his⭕ first day of the official test.

“Basically it was just we tested some electronics today, a few settings that we tested a lot during the Shakedown, but it𝐆 was just a reconfirmation,” he said.

“It was a good day for us, especially for the engineers to know a little bit more the dire𝓀ction we have to go.”

Quartararo added: ♈“I don’t want to be too positive from the beginning. I think that we work in a good way.

“It’s only the first day of ܫthe test and we⛦ have to see also the others.

“We can see already many of them went super-fast on the🀅 first day, [but] it’s already three days that we are here.

“So, we have to be neutral💞 and try to work well and we will see where we ar🔜e in Thailand.”