Bagnaia, winner of the laꦕst four rounds to close from 91 to 30-points behin🤡d Quartararo, had several different chassis on offer during the post-race Misano test.

“Yeah, w𓆏e are working in the opposite way to Yamaha!” Bagnaia said. “We are trying to find some corner speed and to have a bike that cl💎oses more the line on the exit.

“I think we are doing a good job, we are improving a lot. Compared to last year we lost a bit of [top] speed, to h🉐ave more corner speed… We are moving in that direction.”

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With the most powerful engine on the grid, Ducati can affo𓆉rd to lose some of its top speed if the trade-off provides greater gains in the corners.

“I think top speed for sure is something important, but not the main thing. So we are doing all the work to find more agility, more stability and Yamaha on that i🦹s so much better than ༒us,” Bagnaia explained.

“So they're working in the opposite way [to us], to find some [top] speed. But for sure finding speed, maybe [Yamaha] will have less stability, less agility. So I think now w꧂e have two different kinds of thinking.”

Ducati’s em🅺phasis on handling was underlined by the lack of a 2023 engine for the factory riders to test.

“In this moment we are just focusing on chassis, on having a better feeling with the bike,” Bagnaia saiဣd. “Because from outside it looks that our bike now is perfect, but we are losing a lot of time now in corner speed or in closing lines compared to Yamaha.

“So we are woওrking on it and we are finding something great. Also, if we have toꦡ lose some speed in the straight, we prefer to have more agility and stability.”

Bagnaia - who set the second fastest lap time,❀ just 0.118s behind Quartararo - also tried the mysterious new clutc💃h system, also being evaluated by the Pramac riders.

“I♛t's just a different kind of lever that has less 🌊movement, but I prefer the standard one,” said the Italian.

Team-mate Jacꦯk Miller set the 18th fastest time, having repeated h🍬is Turn 4 accident from the race lead.

"This morning's crash at Tꦫurn 4 was very similar to the one I suffered in the race, and now we'll have some more data toℱ analyse to understand what exactly happened, as, at that point, I had the feeling I was doing the same as the lap before,” said he Australian.

“In any case, yesterday and today, we worked on different setup configurations but didn't try any new components,” added Miller, who previously thought he would have ‘a long list of stuff to try’ desp🦩ite leaving fo🤡r KTM next season.

“Now we'll analyse the information g🍬athered over these two days to improve the bi💯ke further ahead of the next race at Aragon,”

Aragon was the scene Bagnaia’s debut MotoGP vic♐tory, last season.