After injury scuppered his Sepang MotoGP test, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez was on top form in Qatar as he finishe🉐d fifth fastest.

Less than a tenth down 🧔on Aleix Espargaro and half a tenth faster than Maverick Vinales, Fernandez showed his potential aboard the RS-GP23 machine, which he will swap for a 2024-spec bike midway through the year.

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But Fernandez was qu🌜🌸ick to point out that trying for a fast lap was not the main aim at Lusail.

“We didn’t really focus on a fast lap, we just tried the soft tyre,” said Fernandez. “The key for this test was not🔯 to create any dangerous situations, so when I used the soft tyre, it was not in order to try to push, but to understand it because I never used this kind of compound before on this bike.

“So, this was impo💖rtant for us. Anyway, I still didn’t want to focus on a single fast lap. I’m just happy about the work we did.

“The pace was very good, especially when working with the used tire. For us it was great, a🤡lso seeing that I don’t feel 10🔥0% fit yet, which hopefully is going to improve for the GP.”

While Fernandez spent much of day-two at the front of the field, team-mate Miguel Oliveira waℱs unable to𝐆 demonstrate the same speed.

Oliveira was the only Aprilia ride♏r not inside the top 10, and although it was a better test for the Portuguese rider than Sepang, he was still ‘not fully satisfied’.

Oliveira said: “It was a better day. I’m not fully sa🔯tisfied, but at least we took a good step forward. It’s just a shame that we got to a good feeling too late.

“Finally, it was four days with th🦹e same bad feeling and today with a slightly differ꧑ent bike, I could finally start to make some steps and be competitive.

“I coul🍰dn’t make the best of the whole bike because your braking points, the way you ride, if you get a good bike day by day, you can fine-tune those points.

“Also, during today, we were building up a good speed, then lost some time with one bike, but then with the time-attacks everything worked, more or less💮, ok.”