The first day of the official Sepꦐang MotoGP test was the third day of riding in Malaysia for Fabio Quartararo, who is running a one-word message in his cockpit as a reminde🎀r.

Quartararo was spotted having🌃 the word ‘smooth’ in his rider cockpit on the opening day in Sepang, something he said was a part of a conscious effort to change his riding style.

“It was last year that –  especially when we started to work on the electronics, I will say from Thai🐼land – I clearly see the Ducati riding one way a🍒nd I wanted to change completely the electronics, myself,” Quartararo said.

“My 💦instinct [when I go] on the track 🔯is to push like hell and to really maximise all the time the bike.

“But sometimes feeling 🍎slower makes you faster, so this I always have on my dashboard, the word ‘smooth’, that makes me remember always to keep calm on the bike.”

Overall, Quartararo was positive about his fi💛rst day of the official test.

“Basically it was just we tested some electronics today, a few settings that we tested a lot during the Shakedown, bu♛t it was just a reconfirmation,” he said.

“It was a good day for us, especially for the engineers to know a little ꧟bit more the direction we have to go.”

Quartararo added: “I don’t want to be too positive from the beginꦰning. I think that we work in a good way.

“It’s only the first day of the test and we ha🐟ve to see also the others.

“We can see already many of𝓀 them went super-fast on the first day, [but] it’s already three days that we are here.

“So, we have to be neutral and try to wor📖k well and we will s🍷ee where we are in Thailand.”