The KTM rider was 🤡only 21st following the ꦐopening day of action, however, the two-time MotoGP race winner found nearly a full second in order to finish the penultimate day of MotoGP testing at Sepang in tenth place.

A damp morning was then followed by a brief spell of track action in dry conditions, before more rain led to the leaderboard remaining unchanged during ༺the closing hours.

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But despite missing out on a considerable amount of dry track-time, Binder believꩵes KTM have found a direction on his side of the garage.

"Not a lot of riding today," added Binder. "I was sat in the box for a couple of hours this mor🧜🍃ning and then when we did go I felt good straight away. Was so nice to put in better tyres than yesterday. I can’t complain. 

"We tried a couple of different things which felt good and we found a good direction but we needed a few more runs to play with it a bit. Unfortunately the rain came 🤡down but when the rain came down I felt strong as well."

Binder was seen testing a new fairing thatꦉ included new diffusers on the front-end in a bid to improve turning, however, the South Africa♒n felt very little difference. 

Binder said: "Honestly, I was just trying to figure out what they were for. I didn’t feel much of a diꦗfference. 

"Basically we just played with the balance of the b🐟ike. Yesterday we just threw parts at the thing and figured out what we liked. 

"We kind of put that together a little bit and today was just about narrowing that down. We tried🍒 to get aꦕ little bit more stability on the brakes and throttle to make the bike a little bit less nippy." 

Key to KTM’s potential ಞsuccess in 2023 will be sorting out their qualifying woes which have impacted the Austrian manufacturer m🌳ajorly over the last few seasons.

But after☂ choosing not to set a time attack on day one, Binder will now have to wait un👍til Sunday.

"I planned on putting in a new tyre to see what weܫ could really do but it’s c♒omplicated at this track because tyre drop is so huge," added Binder. 

"By the time you get to the end of the tyre you are two-and-a🎃-half seconds slower and you’re doing that the whole afternoon, the whole morning and then wh🐟en you put in a new one you kind of don’t have any references. 

"It was tricky but I'm really looking for⛎ward to putting in another one and seeing what we ♏can do."