The jump in MotoGP performance this se🦂aso🔯n was epitomised by the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello.

The top 15 riders across the finish line on June 2nd completed the 23-lap distance faster than 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia’s race-winning time from June 11, 2023.

That included Yamaha’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins, in 15th, who s꧅et a race time of 41m 14.998s compared with Bagnaia’s victorious 41m 16.863s the year b♏efore.

Unfortunately for Rins and Yamaha, Bagnaia, winner of both races for Ducati, improved by 25.478s, leaving Rins 23.🌄613s behind at the chequered flag.

It was𝓡 a similar story for race times in the Sprint, with Bagnaia’s 2023 winning time beaten by the top eleven riders this year.

“The level is so high, we have to push a lot, the times are crazy fast,” said title leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin. “I🌊n the Sprint, we did the lap time from qualifying three yearsꦚ ago.

“But it's norma꧑l now. Tyres are better, and the bikes are better.”

Among the biggest personal year-on-year improvements at Mugello was by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales, some 33-seconds faster for Aprilia in the Grand Prix this year: “But… onಞly P8! I'd like to improve by 💜45-seconds so I win the race!”

Vinales added: “[Ducati] did a step. I don't kno🌟w if it's occasionally like Mugello, but in Le Mans also I did a really good race and was only P5! So we need to make a step. 

"Let's see in Assen, a track that can suit can bett🦂er our bike than Mugellꦍo.”

Asked where he thinks Ducati’൲s 2024 race time progress is coming from, Vinales replied: “I think one point is they make the soft tyre last until the end, with a lot of performance.

“So that's a sign. We need to see💃 if we are putting a lot of temperature on the rear tyre or not. 🍰We need to understand.

“What I feel i🌺s that after 5 laps with the soft, I feel it very hot and then I start to lose traction and especially I lose the grip going into the corners. So that's my problem. So we need to work on that.”

Aprilia’s technical director Romano Albesiano highlighted that “Maverick di🦄dn't have a good performance [at Mu✱gello] last year, so this [33sec] number can be a bit ‘disguised’.”

But he also con🧔firmed: “It looks like the [rear Michelin] tyre this year has changℱed more than was expected.

“Sometime♓s we have vibration [chatter] too.... But honestly, we had more last year. Our bike in general benefits f♚rom the new tyre, so [the change is] OK for us.”

Over at KTM, rookie and top RC16 rider Pedro Ac♛osta explained that he and the factory have pu🌠t in a lot of work to avoid chatter from the extra grip of the revised rear tyre.

“Since Le Mans, we are able to avoid it, in one way or anothe꧑r,” Acosta said. “It's true that we were working massively in t൲his area, the factory and also me, to try to avoid it with my riding style.

“It's still not super natural for me, it's also true that it's n♏ot the easiest way to ride for me, but it's a way to avoid [the chatter].

“I need to be a little bit more smooth in some parts of the track,” he added of how he is adapting to avoid triggering ♌the vibration. “Maybe there are some points that I could be better in the entry, for example, but then if this [chatter] problem arrives, this p🍌roblem would be worse on the exit.

“With this super powerful bike, we need to try to be super fast [on the exit and] in the straight, to gain time for free. I'm trying to do that, like I sa✃꧙y it's not the easiest way for me, but it's coming better.”

Otherwise, Acosta's only request is "to try to have a little bit more weight in bot꧃h tyres to ha❀ve a little bit more [grip]."