Darryn Binder is aiming to pick up his sp💯eed on day-two of the official MotoGP test at Sepang after finishing 25th. 

The South African, who finished all three days of the Shakedown test inside the top 10, was half a second off team-mate Andrea Dovizioso🦂, while 2.4s down on the fastest time set by Aleix Espargaro. 

Part of Binder’s focus during the test was to complete a race run, which he said lasted 12 laps during the final day of ಞthe Shakedown, while a soft tyre qualifying run which has not yet been atte๊mpted could come during Sunday’s action. 

"So today was obviously a good start after two days' rest. You feel good, your body has recovered💙, so it was good to jump straigh♏t into it again," said Binder. 

"I felt like I kinda picked up where I left off on the Shakedown test and carried on working in similar areas, just trying to learn a little bit of the electronics and the different 🐽switches and th𒊎e maps. 

"Today we spent a lot of time doing that, also working on the race tyres with the mediums and whatever. We did a little bit of a longer run on them and tried to figure out wha𓃲t works best for the used tyres. 

"Obviously at the end of the day I would have liked to improve a bit more. When the temperatures came down I would have liked to go a bit faster. But anyway, I still went a little bit quicker than the last day and I f♏eel like we worked pretty hard today. 

"I made some important improvements during the medium. Overall it was a good day. Every lap counts and I’m happy with today. For the race simul꧙ation the longest run📖 I’ve done is 12 laps. I did a 12 lap run at the end of day three of the Shakedown." 

During said race run, Binder started out with a full fuel tank in order to assess how t꧑he M1 Yamaha behaves, something we often saw Maverick Vinales struggle with during his time aboard a Yama🐼ha machine.

Binder added: "I started with a full f⛎uel tank and rode for 12 laps. I obviously got to understand a little bit what the bike is like with a full fuel tank, how the tyres slowly drop, understand how you can have a bit more power at the beginning and then change the maps to have a little bit less power for the end. 

"We haven’t done a full race sim yet and after♕ three days I wasn’t physically in the best way. After three days I was pretty tired so that 12 laps💟 was enough. 

"Right now with my pace being quite slow it’s fairly easy to do a 1🦄2 lap run and be pretty constant. It’s not that hard to be constantly slow. 

"Once we improve a bit and geꦦt our single lap speed a bit higher then we can focus mo🐬re on getting the rhythm closer to that. As of right now I feel my pace isn’t bad but it’s obviously because I’m not that fast yet. 

"For the qualifying simulation I’m not 100% sure if we’re going to tr𒈔y a proper one tomorrow, but I’d assume that we might do something similar. Maybe do two runs on a soft tyre or something like that." 

In ter💛ms of engine mapping which is key in the modern day MotoGP, Binder can already tellꦐ the difference it can have despite riding for just four days. 

The former♛ seven-year Moto3 veteran said the size of changes can turn a bike thatﷺ’s near unrideable into a ‘really smooth’ one.

"I’ll tell you what… those switches depending on what’s in them, but there can be a very big difference," added the RNF Yamaha rider. "They can make a bike that’s an absolu🍃te beast to hang on to and that kills you in five laps to a bike that’s really🌜 smooth and you can ride for 20 laps. 

"It makes a very big difference and I think that’s an important part to understand. Especially, like you say, I want to make it my bike but at the 🦹same time I need to unders☂tand what I need. 

"Obviously never working with these electronics before. It's 🌌about understanding where it’s spinning, when it’s spinning and what I ca🔴n explain to them to try and help me. 

"I think the most important thing is to get the power down without spinning, wit💖hout the bike moving and without the bike being super hard to ride. If it’s so hard to ride you’re not going to make a race distance and when the tyre drops you’re✱ really going to struggle. 

"Step by step we♌’ve been playing with the elꦡectronics but I still have a lot to learn. Even though we’re halfway through testing I’m still only climbing into it now."