The Gr♓esini rider stunned with two victories in the opening four rounds, but lost the title lead with a fall at Portimao before an eighth-place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix.

“I've tried the new fairing. It’s not so bad, we h🔯ave to check if I’ll try it also in Le Mans,” said Bagnaia, who set the tenth fastest lap time (+0.666s) during his 45 laps.

“The new one is slimmer. At the start it was strange for me - in the change🌳 of direction it’s really fast, but it's a little bit more unstable. In this tr🌳ack, it was okay. In another track, I don’t know.

“But if the r🥀ace was꧒ starting [at Jerez] now, I’d use the new fairing.”

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As well as trying the updated faiꦗring, Bastianini spent the first in-season test of the year experimenting with riding style tips gleaned from the data of factory Ducati race winner Francesco Bagnaia.

“I modified a bit my style because after the race I checked the data and compared with Pecco my style ꧙was too different and to🐈day I was riding more similar to Pecco. And at the end, I'm a little bit more faster,” he said.

“With medium ty🌞res we improved our ♕pace by 2-3 tenths of a second, so overall this is good news. Then the wind came in the afternoon and I chose to not take any unnecessary risks.”

Rookie team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio, ✱also using last year’s GP21, focussed on set-up and ergonomics on his way to🅷 19th place (+1.195s).

“We needed this test and w🌸e made the most of it,” said the Italian, still chasing his first Mot▨oGP points. “ The work done during the weekend has naturally carried over to today; we concentrated on the feeling with the bike and I think it was a good day.”

The wind hampered di Giannantonio on his soft tyre🐬 run but, “Even though the times don’t show it, I feel the bike a bit more mine. I was also able to try a new tank, a little bit more slender: as often happens, I liked some aspects and liked it less on others.”

Bastianini will head for round seven 💞at Le Mans next weekend third in the world championship, 13 points from Aleix Espargaro (Aprili💝a) and 20 behind title leader Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha).