While Bradley S🌃mith still yearns for a full-time MotoGP ride, the Englishman would be 'very happy' to remain at Aprilia for the second year of his curren🀅t contract.

After six-seasons, two podiums and a peak of ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsixth i🐼n the world championship while racing for Tech3 Yamaha and then Red Bull KTM, Smith switched to test and wild-cards duties for Aprilia this season, plus an entry in the inaugural MotoE series.

Having initially pondered retirement, Smith made clear his goal this season was to try and secure a full-time MotoGP return. But 168澳ꩵ洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:with ver▨y few seats available for 2020, the 28-year-old is content with h🍸is current p𒊎rogramme.

"I have a two-year contract here [at Aprilia]," Smith said oꦉf next season. "Right now I'm very happy with what's going on; the amount of t♚ests that I'm doing and the five wild-cards that I have, it's the best of the non-full-time rides that I could wish for.

𒈔"I hope even after the hiccup [in Catalunya, colliding with team-mate Aleix Espargꦿaro] Aprilia are happy with all the work that I'm doing and MotoE also gives me another focus to look to.

"The balance of the two [MotoGP and MotoE] seems quite ni🃏ce and gives me plenty of time to be here racing, because that෴'s what I still want to be doing.

"If an opportunity pops up for a full-time [2020] ride then of course I'm going to jump at it, but also understanding that the likelihood of that isn’t massive at this point in the season.♐"

While Smith's three wild-card appearances so far have yielded only a best of 17th, his top priori🐻ty is to help accelerate the development of next year's RS-GP by "giving&nb꧃sp;engineers a direction from the electronic and chassis side".

Smith explained that while the forthcoming Brno test, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:where Yamaha hopes to debut its 2020 🅠prototype, looks a li🍃ttle too soon for the new Aprilia, it should nဣot be too far behind.

"The main objective is working towards getting an early 2020 bike out from Aprilia and to the factory riders so that we then have the opportunity to make version two, version t🎐hree - like our competitors,"🐎 Smith said.

"A♕lmost everyone rolls out a 2020 bike in August, we won't be able to do that but we only expect to be four-to-six🦄 weeks behind that and that's a massive step forward compared to where we were this year.

"So the company is understanding what we need and getting well ahead of the game from previous years. My job is to help steer that and get 𒐪the ball rolling for the future."

While Smith was coy about the exact areas targetted fo💮r improvement, he confirmed that traction is now the "golden ticket" in MotoGP.

Aprilia's top rider Aleix Espargaro expressed frustration♚ at the pace of upgrades earlier in the season, looking on enviously at the new parts being delivered❀ to younger brother Pol at KTM.

But Smith, who spent♐ two years alongside Pol at the Austrian factory, feels no other manufacturer can match KTM's production speed - while insisting Aprilia is a close second.

"You have to bear in mind that KTM have the possibility to make everything in-house, WP is just 𓆏across the way, the boss owns both, he's willing to stop production𒅌 and make sure that chassis are built and ready for the next weekend," Smith said.

"Nobody has that turnaround process. Aprilia has the s♓econd-best, I honestly believe that, closely followed by Ducati for exam♛ple and then the Japanese are another step behind everybody else.

"So I'm pleased with the rate of turnaround we [at Aprilia] are able to do, but KTM i🎐s on another level from that point, also budgets and all of that type oꦓf thing.

"I can understand Aleix's frustration, trust me I'm trying as much as I can to steer everything in the right direction. I think also we𝔍 are being very thorough because of last year's difficulties with the 2018 bike, we don’t want to rush anything and go the wrong way.

"But I have every confidence in the next few m🐷onths Aleix will see s🍒ome upgrades that he needs and is wishing for and that will also turn into results on the race track."

Espargaro and new ไteam-mate And𝓰rea Iannone are 14th and 15th respectively in the world championship, with a best race result so far of ninth (Espargaro, Argentina).

Aprilia is nine points from KTM in the battle to avoid sixth and last in ꧒the constructors' standings.

Smith finished second for the Sepang team in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🎃ina🌃ugural MotoE race at Sachsenring.