The Portuguese, who has battled back from several nasty injuries to finish i🧸n the top six at three🔯 of the last four grands prix, concluded:

“There is nothing outstandingly better than mine but it [the 2023] is bett🍷er a little bit everywhere. So it w💛as an interesting test.

“The most interesting factor was tha🍸t with very used tyres, I could still be faster than witꦫh my 2022 bike.

“Once you jump on a new bi🐎ke and you suddenly💝 go even faster it means there is potential there. So I’m happy for that.”

But with the MotoGP regulations locking each rider to one engine design throughout the season, there is no question of Oliveira finis🐈hing the season on the 2023.

“It was also in the plans that we would not do many laps onꦚ it because we will not be competing on this bike. So it would not make sense,” said the former KTM race🌄 winner.

“An🐻d then we focused our efforts on the 2022 spec. We tried a swingarm, a link, a steering damper. Little th❀ings to just help us understand how we could improve the current spec.”

But the outing was stilꦛl beneficial for this season, in the sense that Oliveira now knows the exact ‘limitations’ of his older bike🐎 and where the 2023 parts make a difference.

“I know the limitations of the [2022] bike because I've ridden the new one and I will not become crazy if I cannot achieve the performances that the other two [factory] guys achieve because🉐 I now understand how the [2023] bike works now,” he said.

It’s not yet clear if Oliveira and team-mate Raul Fernandez will get the 2023 bike for next season or if Aprilia will be able to offer them 2024 spec RS-GPs, alongside🌠 factory stars Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales.

“I can't💙 answer that to be honest. I would love to [get the 2024], for sure! But that's something on Ap⛄rilia’s side, not on my side,” Oliveira said.

One person who already ꩲwishes Oliveira had access to the latest-spec bike is Aprilia’s triple MotoGP winner Espargaro.

“I think he ꩲfelt more sta🐲bility with the ‘23 bike,” said Espargaro.

“It's good also to have his point of view. [Misano𝔍 is] a really strange track, really strange layo𒊎ut, but I think it's a smart move to give Miguel the ‘23 bike to understand a little bit more and to have more and more data.

“Unfortunately, he cannot use it for the rest of this season because of the rules. If it was just my decision, I would 100 per cent give the ‘23 spec to both the [RNF] riders now, but it's not that easy obvi✅ously.”

Maverick Vinales was🐼 the fastest Aprilia at the test, in second place behind Luca Marini (Ducati).

Oliveira was sev🤡enth, with team-mate Fernandez tenth and Espargaro eleventh, aft♊er a debut on the carbon fibre chassis.