The four KTM riders were left towards the tail of the timesheets for much of last weekend’s test, with only an ‘insane’ lap by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder pushing the South African into ninth.

Meanwhile, new team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller was 17th (+0.941s), followed by the GASGAS bikes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro (18th) and rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez (22nd).

In an interview with Guidotti said: “We are not happy. Of course we are not where we [want to be]…. We face some unexpected issues. So we really have to understand tꦍhis strange behaviour and solve it quickly because we really are far.

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“We know we couldn’t close the gap in🦋 one 😼winter, but then we miss maybe more and we have to understand better," continued Guidotti.

ꦉ“The rider feelin🐼g from Miller’s side is not too bad, but is still slow. He’s getting confidence and speed run-by-run but of course it’s still not enough.

“For Brad,ꦓ it’s a big surprise for him because it’s not the bike he was used to riding and the feeling is compl🐎etely different.

“We don’t have enough time to maybe solve everything, but for sure weꦕ have to solve something and give the riders a better package [for the first race].”

While former Ducati race winner Miller insisted he is getting more comfortable on the KTM with each day, Binder felt that improvement♔s to the turning of the RC16 have resulted in rear grip issues.

"My feeling with this bike has been the same since I rode it fo🍃r the first time at Valencia," he said at Portimao. "We’ve tried a lot of set ups and different things. Some thin𝐆gs have helped me have a bit of a better feeling but I have one issue: we need rear grip.

"The bike is spinning a lot and when we brake we don’t have a🔯 lot of contact. It’s something that has been quite difficult to solve at the moment.

"The guys did a ꩲgre♌at job finding some of the things we’re looking for [for 2023]. The bike’s lighter, it turns a little bit more. but it came at the expense of a lot of rear grip."

As he pr𝄹epared to leave Portimao🐻, Binder suggested a solution to the rear grip woes won't come from set-up changes alone: "It needs hardware"

The 2023 season-opener ta🔯kes place at the same Portuguese circuit next weekend.