Like six-time MotoGP champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez, Joan Mir and new teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins, Nakagami has seen H🥂onda bring a raft of n🉐ew parts for the 2023 season.

However, the desired effect from those upgrades has not taken place as of yet, as the perform💧ance increase needed to challenge the likes of Ducati and Aprilia was not there in Sepang or Portimao.

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Of course, testing is completely different to a race weekend and Nakagami is hoping that when competitive racing begins, Honda will find themselves higher up th🦩e order.

But in order for that to happen the Japanese rider, who was expected to be replaced by fellow c💟ountryman Ai Ogura before the Moto2 runner-up decided to stay in the middleweight class, admits he and the bike need to improve. 

"The three days in Sepang and the two days here [Portimao] haven’t been easy, but today, in terms of lap times, everything is very tight, the gap has reduced, and we’ve taken a step,"🎃 said the LCR Ho🌠nda rider after day-two in Portimao. 

"The feedback with the bike is better,🐠 but both the bike and I need to improve. We could take another step forward during the race weekend, so let’s keep working. The team has done a good job as always."

Fernandez ‘able to replicate’ late race pace in MotoGP already?

Perhaps coming to the end of his MotoGP career after this season, Nakagami finds himself in a very different situation to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez, with the Spaniard set to🔥 debut i🐬n the premier class with GASGAS Tech 3 KTM. 

♛After a strong test in Sepang, Fernandez felt as though race pace was one of the areas he needed to confirm as a strong point.

Often able to find late race pace compared to his rivals in Moto2 last season, the Spaniard seems to have continued tha♋t trend heading into his opening race as a MotoGP rider.

Speaking after the test, Fernandez said: "We had a good morning and made good progress with the bike. We di🍬d a race simulation and I am happy because I had a good race 💜pace and felt good physically. 

"I was able to understand more things about the bꦛike, such as tyre management and how to ride it in race conditions. In Moto2, I was always very goo🌠d towards the last part of the races, so it is good that I am also able to replicate this to the MotoGP class. 

"In the afternoon, we worked on a time-attack and I think that we still have a lot of work🌄 to do to understand how to get the maximum of new soft tyres."