After a positive showing at the Dutch MotoGP round at Assen Scott Redding has revealed he is awaiting further offers to ride in 2019 before he makes a decision reg💦arding his future.

The Englishman has been identified by c🅰urrent team Aprilia to lead its testing outfit next year as the Noale factory bids to devಌelop the RS-GP into a fully-fledged top-six challenger.

But Redding said he has not been paying too much attention to Aprilia’s offer in recent w♌eeks, and has instead focussed on rediscovering his enjoyment during race weekends after a difficult opening to the year.

“I haven’t really thought [about it],” said the 25-year old at Assen. “I just come here, ride the bike and go home. I want to🍃 get a couple of opꦅtions and we’ll see.

“Right now my mind is just free, do what I want a🌱nd do the results, go home, come back again and do the same. Until I get some real offers on the table that are respectable, then I’m n♒ot even going to look. There’s no point. What I’m doing now is not bad.”

Expanding on the change in approach to his race weekend at Assen, Redding continued: “The difference is I’m not trying to develop the bike. I’m just doing wha๊t he [team-mate Aleix Espargaro] does. I’m just riding it. That’s the only differꩵence from the last races to now.

“All the races up to Mugello it was like🌺, ‘You🥃 need to perform, you need to perform.’ Me thinking that means top twelve, but the bike struggles to do it. I’m trying to make the bike better to do it.

“After I saw I won’t be riding next year I said, ‘OK, fuck it. I’ll just ride the bike, leave it and ♛do that.’ Now I gain more. My package is OK. It’s not great. It’s not terrible. It’s OK. I just come in, get changed and do the same later on.”

Redding revealed the stress involved with fighting to prove to Aprilia he was worthy of a full-time seat in its racing squad for 2019 led to him “breaking down” during th♑e Italian Grand Prix.

The Italian factory has since confirmed Andrea Iannone will step in to ride alongside Aleix Espargaro in 2019 and ’20, and Redding has subsequently attempted to place leꦫss pressure on himself.

“I don’t even con𒈔centrate on it,” he said. “I just do as I want. I don’t even think about riding the bike. I come in, give my information, we tweak here and there. I walk out the pit box and check the times. That’s it until the next practice. Then we go.

“I want to ride the bike. That’s the difference. At Mugello I had that much pressure and the bike was♕n’t working, I was breaking down because I don’t want to get on it. I’m there to make results that I can’t physically do.

🌱“After that I thought, ‘Y𒈔ou know what? I’m not destroying my mind anymore.’ I go ride the bike because I want to. I fought with them today because I was able to and because I wanted to.

“That’s what I 𓂃go racing for. It’s not the position, but at least I’m not there out the back struggling to finish last. I push a bit and get a bit. At least I can go home and say, ‘At least I had a good race.’ Not finishing last and thinking, ‘Here we go again.’”

Focussing more on the correct tyre choice and riding style improvements rather than developing the bike led to two of🌠 Redding’s best results in 2018 – a twelfth in Barcelona and a 14 at Assen, 16s back of the race winner.

“There are so many things going on,” he said. “🍷Two races ago I said, ‘F**k it. We’ll 🌳leave the bike, do a bit of this, a little bit of that. At the end you can turn the bike inside out and the result will be the same.

“You can get more from th♍e right tyre choice, riding style changes, a little bit of electr🦩onics and that’s it. That’s what I understood. I’ve just been quite relaxed in the last couple of races, I do what I want. I’m making the best results now.”