Hiroshi Aoyama is looking to unleash⛎ more engine performance from the new Honda RC213V-RS's Oꦛpen class bike during day two of the Valencia MotoGP season finale.

A🍰oyama has been given the honour of racing the new machine prior to becoming a HRC test ♍rider in 2015.

Unlike the current RCV1000R, which Aoyama has spent the rest of this season on at Aspar, the 'RS' is powered by the same pneumatic-valve engine as ꦆthe t꧂itle-winning RC213V.

The increase in power was obvious from Aoyama reaching 324.1km/h in Friday practice, as quick as the Factory Yamahas and just a few km/h behind the official Repsolꦿ Hondas.

Howไever Aoyama was only 21st on the 𝓰timesheet, behind riders still using the RCV1000R, despite being at least 10km/h quicker than them on the straight.

"The new bike looks the same, but inside it is completely different. So I'm struggling a bit to adapt to the bike," Aoyama explained. "The engine has more power, but together with the Marelli [Open class] electronics - at the moment we are killing the power too much. So I had top spꦯeed but I was losing a lot in acceleration.

"We started with quite a smooth engine characꦕter. We had many mappings available, a little too much. Also gearing. With this bike we do not have experience and so tomorrow we need to adjust the gearing.

"This bike has a little more power range, but if you are below there is nothi💝ng. The 𒀰old engine had a narrow powerband and less overall power, but was more progressive."

The Japanese added: "We tried to improve from the morning to the afterno൩on, especially in the 🃏suspension side. Because when the engine character changed we needed to adapt the suspension also, but we went in not the correct way and lost the sensation of the bike a little bit.

"Tomorrow we must find out which direction to go and improve the lap time. The problem is that we dܫon't have much time to work. This bike has a lot of parameters that can be adjusted so we have to find out which to adjust and which we don't touch.

"As I said, today we were killing too much powe✃r and tomorrow we have to f෴ind a good compromise."

The new bi🌳ke looked to give Aoyama an improved chance of bridging the eight point gap to top Open Honda rider Scott Redding in the final standings, however the set-up issues meant the Englishman was 0.7s faster on Friday.

Aoyama's RC213V-RS will be han♕ded to team-mate Nicky Hayden and Cardion AB's Karel Abraham to share during next week's Valencia test. Aoyama's replacement Eugene Laverty and fellow 2015 rookie 💟Jack Miller will use the old RCV1000R for their first outing.

Aoyama expects to take part in his first test as a Honda development rid🔜er at the e🌱nd of November.