168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini followed up his top Honda qualifying performance (13th) and best Sprint race finish of the season (10th) with 14th place in Sunday’s Australian MotoGP.

The Italian set the fastest race lap by a Honda 💜rider (+0.646s) on the penultimate lap ♋of the grand prix, a quirk matched by Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), Enea Bastianini (Ducati) and Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati).

Marini’s Repsol team-mate Joan Mir and LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami set t♉heir best race laps on 21 of 27, with Johann Zarco also comparatively l﷽ate on lap 18.

While Bastianini and to a lesser extent di Giannantonio have renowned tyre-sav𓆏ing s💫kills, the performance delay for the Honda riders underlined difficulties generating heat in the rear tyre when using ‘harder’ compounds.

“It cost us so many laps to put temperature on the edge of the harder compound [left side🙈] of the [soft rear] tyre,” said Marini, who also lost grou🌟nd at the start when he had to avoid a spinning Marc Marquez.

“For this, we are not able to fight with the others, especially against KTM and𝐆 Aprilia.

“We are slow at the beginning. But then after six laps, when the rear tyre is ready, the pace started to be super competitivไe and💃 I could enjoy a lot.

“The feeling with the bike was one of the b𒅌est of the seꦐason.

“So we have to try to understand how to make the rear tyre work better. This is the sam♏e𝓀 problem.”

“It’s a matter of weight distribution”

Althoug💫h yet to break into the grand prix top ten on the RC213V, Marini is encouraged by the progress made so far this season.

His only point during the opening 13 rounds came after post-raceജ tyre pressure penalties in Germany, but Marini has since scored in three 🐠of the last four rounds (being taken out in Indonesia).

“We already solved many problems,” he said. “Now the bike is much better than last year and the beginning of the s♎eason.

“But still when the [tyre] compound🌱 is so hard, it's difficult for us.”

The 27-year-old says the area to💟 work on is clear.

“For sure, it’s a matter of weight distribution in the bike,” he explained. “We have so much weight in the front because in the past th🅘e [succe♚ssful] bikes were like this.

“Especially with 𒀰the Bridgestone tyres, [Honda was] always winning with this traditional way to build the bike for the Japanese.

“For the ridﷺer, it is also fantastic to have this kind of feeling with the front tyre.

"But the problem is that the rear is the best part o🐭f the Michelin tyres and we are not able to use✃ all the potential of the rear tyre.

“For sure, the target for next year will be to try𓆉 to change a little bit the weight distribution and to load more the rear tyre, like the other bikes do.”

While Ducati is renowned for its rear grip, Marini thinks another manufacturer is even betterꩵ at putting heat quickly into the rear rubber.

“I think we have to look at KTM especially bec𒈔ause they are the master of this,” he said.

“Alre𝕴ady in lap one maybe sometimes they push even too much on the rear tyre.

“So maybe they are on the opposite side, but we have to work, try to analyse them and tryꦑ to fi🍒nd a way to improve this situation.

“Because, in my opinion, if we are able to solve it, we can ඣfight for P7 or P8 at the moment. 

"But we have to⛦ find a solution for this problem.”

Marini finished 24 seconds from victory on Sunday and n🎃ine seconds behind a multi-rider fight for sixth-to-eighth places.

Zarco was the leading꧅ Honda ꦏrider in 12th, five-seconds behind that battle and four seconds ahead of Marini.