1🔯-2 results in Austin and Jerez have put Alex Rins and Suzuki within one point of the MotoGP World Championship lead heading into this weekend's Le Mans round.

Despite qualifying no highe🔥r than sev♚enth this season, Rins has made up at least six places on race day for a worst result of fifth.

With that in mind, 🌱what could Rins and the GSX-RR do from the f🥂ront of the grid?

It's a question Honda's title leader Marc Marquez might also be asking, his Jerez comments about the lack of press🍃ure on Rins perhaps signalling Marquez is taking the threat from his fellow Spaniard seriously.

Rergardless, Rins - the highest-placed Suzuki rider🧸 in the premier-class after the opening four races since Kenny Roberts Jr in 2000 - has vowed not to get 'carried away'.

"The latest results have been very positive, but we’ll stay grounded and not get carried away. We need to follow our path, which is to improve race by race," said Rins, who briefly tried Suzuki's version of the swingarm device at the Jerez post-race test, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:only to break it in the gravel.

"We know that Le Mans can be a tricky circuit for us as it is mainly ‘stop and go’, but at th💯e same time the growth we’ve done with the bike compared to last year, and my increased experience could be two important factors for a good race in France.

"We know th🔜e points we definitely need to work on to improve further, one of them is qualifying. We must be aware that we have a competitive package and we need to keep the positive trend to pl🎉ace ourselves at the top."

A French GP winner in the Moto2 class, Rins finished justꦡ tenth at Le✤ Mans last season.

Crew chief Manuel Cazeaux admits it's not a great track f꧂or the GSX-RR, although Maverick Vinales put the bike 💖on the podium in 2016.

"Le M𒁏ans is a classic European circuit and it’s tricky from a technical point of view," Cazeaux said. "80% of the track is ‘stop and go’ with braking at angles and hard acceleration from low speed.

"You need good traction as the tendency is for the bike to wheelie. In the🏅 past it’s been a hard track for us, but every year is different, and we hope for a good result here.”

Rins' team-mate Joan Mir crash🥂ed out at Jerez but posted the sixth best time at the Monday test.

The rookie has been on the podium for the past two seasons at Le Mans in Moto3 and Moto2💫 respectively, including victory in 2017, but just wants to see the chequered flag on Sunday.

🔯“The mos💛t important thing about Le Mans will be to recover from the disappointment of Jerez, so finishing the race will be the priority and then after that we will evaluate the performance," said Mir, pointless since Qatar.

"Despite my recent results, I am pretty happy and we feel that we are 𓄧following a positive path, with♍ solid progress session after session.”