Enea Bastianini explains “strange” KTM MotoGP trait he needs to adapt to

Tech3 rider is fi🔥nding his feet on the RC16 in testing

Enea Bastianini, Tech3 KTM, 2025 Sepang MotoGP test
Enea Bastianini, Tech3 KTM, 2025 Sepang MotoGP test
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Enea Bastianini says the support the KTM M🏅otoGP bike gives him under braking is “a bit strange” because “i🗹t’s something new to me” compared to what he experience on the Ducati.

The seven-time grand prix winner is known for being one of t👍he hardest brakers in MotoGP currently, which matched we꧂ll with the Ducati machinery he previously rode.

After two days of testing the KTM 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:this week in Malaysia, Bastianini notes that the RC16 is even stronger under braking to the point that it fe🅺els unusual f♔or him.

Asked whatඣ he likes most about the bike, he said: “The most? You can push a lot with the brakes.

“Sometimes I lost the fro𒁃nt with the old bikes, and with this if you are more ⛦aggressive the bike supports you.

“It’s something new to me and it’s a bit strange.

“I need some time to understand in which area I have to w💎ork more, because this point is very, very strong about this bike.”

Bastianini hasn’t had the easiest o🍒f weeks at Sepang so far, having finished around a second shy of team-mate Maverick Vinales on We𓆉dnesday.

On Thursday, Bastianini says he “su🔜ffered” in the morning because numerous changes to the bike didn’t work.

As the day went on KTM was able to make Bastianini more comfortable on the bike, with the Italian 17th at the chequered flag but only just under a💙 tenth of a second behind Vinales.

“This morning, I suffered,” he said.

“I suffered because I made a lot of changes and nothing worked well♌.

“But for the afternoon, we did some modifications on the bike and also I tried some new solutions and this 🥀helped me to bring confidence.

“At the end I started my work, because I received som𓆏e information and it ha🐽s been possible to give that information to the team.

“At the end, I stayed much closer to the othe🐼r riders on the time at꧋tack but also much closer on the pace.

“But we need to work more. Probably tomorrow we need to do some laps and some time attacks, bec✨ause it’s important and it’s what I miss more at the moment because the strongest point of this bike is much different to my oܫld one.

“Sometimes I make s🍷ome mistakes.I can improve. I have time.

“We have just one day left here, but then we have Thailand and this is impor🍷tant because I’m a bit behind.”

Specifying the changes that made him feel better on the bike, he added: “I changed something on the swingarm becꦿause I tried to do some modif♍ications like in the past but it was too bad.

“We went in the opposite direction and then it was good. But we have to do something more to try other set-ups tomorrow, maybe also my position on t👍he bike is not the perfect one.”

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