KTM spent Monday’s official Jerez MotoGP test working on the chatter (vibration) issues that arouse over the race weekend, as well as ‘experimentation’ with aerodynamics, suspen✅sion, ride height devices plus clutch and engine parts.

The aero work included a revised side fairing for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta, with the South African finishing as the fastest RC16 rider in sixth place (+0.234s), after a t𝓰ime attack on his penultimate lap.

“Today wa🥀s a quite a good day,” said Binder. “We had some aero packages to go through to collect some information and keep pus💮hing that side of the project.

“A little bit with set-up and a different setting for the rear shock that made thꦿe bike a bit more stable, which is always great especially at a track like this with the change of direction.

“We focused on things we can use moving forward next week. With aero you can win in some areas and lose in others so it’s important to take the comments and the data and work on the benefits. Now we can leave ♔here and put things together.”

Rookie Acosta was the next quickest RC16 and equal 🌜tenth on the timesheets w꧟ith Jorge Martin (+0.488s).

“We tried a fairing and some diff🌃e🐎rent settings on our standard race bike,” said the GASGAS Tech3 rider, who also had a different air intake. “It was a good day. Our bike is tricky in some points and on fast tracks and we are really improving.

“We had a lot of grip here but the lap-times were slower than𝔉 Friday. The weather changed a bit today, so it was🍸 tricky, but anyway, everything good.

“We changed parts but didn’t r﷽eally have time to make ma🌱ny back-to-backs. The new fairing was very positive though.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller’s work was focussed on the vibration proble𝔍ms, but with no apparent breakthrough. The Australian was 17th fastest.

“We worked through a lot today. Played around with the bike a lot. We still need to tackle the vibration issue when the track has a lot of grip and when you make a lot o💞f changes there are a lot of other effects, so we had to find the balance and I think we made some headway,” he said.

Acosta’s Tech3 team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez tried the fꦇront-fender wing on his way ♊to 22nd place, after a late fall.

“We worked on the setting of the bike and to improve our feeling and we worked on many things. Honestly, I want to be faster b🧸ut I’m not unhappy,” he said. “We discovered a lot. The way is closer and we are narrowing the target.

“I had a late crash and I’m sorry to the team for that but…it will come. I’m looking forward 𝓀to Le Mans; it’s a track I like, and I hope we can have a good weekend.”

With Pedrosa taking a bre🧜ak after the race weekend, Pol Espargaro stepped in for test ride♕r duties. Espargaro, who will make his first KTM wild-card at Mugello next month, was 19th.

“We had things to test in pretty much every area of the bike!” said KTM team manager Francesco Guido⭕tti.&n♐bsp;

“With our [race] riders we worked on the short-term compe🎀titiveness but Pol – and Dani this past w⛄eekend – were working on the mid-term.”

Technical director Sebastian Risse revealed that sꦓome ‘engine parts’ - outside of the homoඣlogation areas - were also on the agenda.

“We focused a lot on updates that we can stiﷺll bring this year, which means the impending aero update but also other items l🍬ike electronics, engine parts for even more performance and also suspension,” Risse said.

“We shar𒅌ed the test items around the group, so when we found something positive we could carry it over to the others t▨o confirm. 

"It means we have a complete picture for the items’ peཧrformance across the riders and we’re quite positive it will have some effect in the next races.”