Enea Bastianini: “When you are uncomfortable, you can’t push”

Enea Bastianini leaves the Jerez MotoGP test with small gains ♋but major KTM comfort concerns unresolved.

Enea Bastianini
Enea Bastianini

While Tech3 KTM team-mate Maverick Vinales was again on competitive form at the Jerez MotoGP test, team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini is still battling for con🅘fidence on the RC16 - despite a small step fꦉorward.

Ninth in the Spanish Grand Prix, the Italian entered the f𝐆irst official in-season test looking to get more out of the K🌄TM package.

But while his best lap ꩵcame during a late lap time attack, he was only classified 14th, 1.0s behind the time of Vinales.

“At the end the lap time ꦬwas OK,” Bastianini explained, “but again I’m not happy because I’m not riding comfortable, and when you are uncomfortable, you can’t push a l𝓀ot.

“But 🐻it’s just for the moment. I think in some weeks we can resolve that problem. I can ada🦋pt better to the bike.”

Despite some gains on paper, Bastianini revealed that the underlying iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚssues remain. 

Corner speed is currently the weakest point of his ✨riding, and the area he and the team are focused on improving. KTM provided a few new part combinations to trial with mixed results.

“We tried some solutions on the bike and some things have helped me to be faster. The step at the moment is small. But it’s OK,” he said. “Some things wor🌊ked well, some things not.”

Another obstacle for Bastianini is that he doesn’t currently feel the benefit from fresh ♚rubber: “When I put the new tyre, I don’t understand why, but my grip remains more or less the same as the used tyre.”

While Vinales concluded the test second fastest, just 0.361s behind Marc Marquez’s Ducati, Bastianini was left encouraged by his team-mate’s pace - and the broader potential of the RC16 - even if he isn🙈’t yet fully tapping into it himself.

“Maverick has been very, very fast again, anꦛd they’ve demonstrated they can do a great job with the bike.”

Next up is Tech3’s home French Grand Prix at Le Mans from May 9༒-11.

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