Miguel Oliveira suffered from an overheating Michelin front tyre during Sunday’s MotoG🤡P race in Portimao, as he crashed🅺 out from the race he won six months ago. 

Following🌌 a crash in qualifying that left Oliveira starting from the fourth row, Sunday wasn’t much better for the home hero who crashed out very early on at turn 14.

"It was a sad finish to our home GP. Definitely not in our dreams, but we need to acce🀅pt this ending and move forward," said th𝓀e KTM rider. 

"It was tricky for us as we overheated the front tyre very quickly and we got more movement than exꦑpected, and I ended u💫p crashing in Turn 14.” 

"I lost the rear brake and♌ the bike on the right side was very damaged but I wanted to finish the race out of re🎐spect for my team, the mechanics who rebuilt the bike after the crash yesterday (Saturday), and the Portuguese fans. Heads up and looking forward for the next one."

KTM have not been helped by the different compoun🌼d of Michelin tyre introduced this year, whiꦆch Oliveira feels has ‘penalised’ the team of sorts. 

The 26 year-old said: "It is wh🔯at we have to use because the dual compound at 👍the moment is just not working. 

"ℱWe tried to adapt the bike set-up to use this tyre, but of course during the race the track temperature got up a lot and we also had many bikes in front, so it ꦇwas getting really, really hot. 

"So yeah we were🔴 penalised in the options we had to go with, and the Medium front was definitely tܫhe best we had."

Following last season which was ea🦩sily the Austrian manufacturer’s best in the premier class, the tyre issues have somewhat s🎐een KTM fall back down the packing order.

Asked if he was worried, Oliveira added: "Well yes, about the asymmetric for sure, but we will try to use other opᩚᩚ🌄ᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtions for sure during the GPs.

"One thing is sure is that these tyres have a range of temperature to work in that is very sensitiꦑve🍸. 

"So we just need to predict this and try to adapt 𝓀as possible our bike to the situation."