The first is enginꦉe design ⛄which, once homologated ahead of round one, cannot be changed until the end of the season.

The second is the aerodynamic package which, once homologated, can be upไdated just once during the 2023 season.

Many riders left Sepang still open-🅠minded over their choice of 2023 aero, preferring to make a final decision after retesting the various options - plus some potential new designs - at Portimao.

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“No, actually I don't want to really play so much here with aero because I think this is dangerous,” said the Spaniard. “I believe this 🧜is not a place where [the aero that works here is] is going to work everywhere.

“Malaysia is a good place because you have good braking, hard acceleration, top speed, so it's a place where you need to try [aero]. Fast corners, going in fast. Braking into slow cornersꦑ - you have every🌠thing.

“Here you don't have those long, fa𒆙st corners apart from the last corner of the circuit.”

The Spaniard, returning to KTM machinery after two frustrating seasons at ꧅Repsol Honda, was quickest of th🌟e RC16 riders at last month’s Sepang test, in 13th (0.9s).

Espargaro already feels confident that the main parts have been chosen, proviಌding there ar꧟e no unpleasant surprises this weekend.

“I think in Sepang we ended the test with the package, the bike, that we are going to st🎃art the year,” he said. “But for sure there is some mileage missing on some of the new stuff.

“Dani [Pedrosa] did manꦍy, many laps on it but we want to ma🐻ke it also a proper test of mileage on some parts of the engine.

“And then for sure reconfirm that what we tried in ꦕMalaysia is OK. If we go out here [on Saturday] and everything works more or less OK, it means that we did a good job in Malaysia.

“If there is something [wrong] ‘out-of-the-box’ then then we need to figure it out what are the mistakes, because these two circuits are very 🥂different so it can happen.”

Nonetheless, “The plan is to use this test to prepare for the first race of the year… If what we did in Malaysia works good here, we will not need to focus on big things and it's going t⛦o be a matter of set-up. That’s the idea."

Testing at Portimao runs from 9:30-5:30ಞpm, on Saturday and Sunday.