168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez described his debut on the 2024 Aprilia RS-GP as ‘like tasting candy’ du꧙ring Monꦐday’s Jerez MotoGP test.

The Spaniard, who rides for the satellite Trackhouse team, i꧅s the only Aprilia rider still using th🐽e 2023 machine.

Aprilia has promised to upgrade him to the newest bike during ♉this season, a pledge made possible b𒐪y minimal engine modifications to the ’24.

But with only one aero update allowed, Fernandez is happy to wait until the factory introduces its final 2024 fairing so that h⭕e can be on the same aero package as team-mate Miguel Oliveira and🐼 factory riders Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales.

The fairing update is also du🦩e to feature enhanced rider cooling for the flyaway rounds, after the bike baked its riders at place such as Buriram last season.

“Riding the new bike was like tasting candy - I did just two runs with the 2024 machine and it w💞as good, I did a 1m 37 which I am happ🅰y with and I think there is more potential,” said Fernandez,

“It’s not easy to adapt to this bike quickly, especially to understand the [new] aerody🅺namics.

“It was bet🌼ter, but it will take some time and we don’t want to get confused as I’ll still 🔯have to wait some rounds before I get the new one, so we are fully focused on our RS-GP 2023.”

Team manager Wi🌠lco Zeelenberg revealed that braking was the main area of improvement felt by Fernandez, but underlined that he is unlikely to make the switch until ‘around the middle of the season’.

“Raul was quite surprised about the 2024 RS-GP - he said there’s a l𝓀ot of potential and it stops better than his current bike, so this is positive and of course, to go faster with this machine, he needs more time on it, but certainly interesting to see,” Zeelenber💎g said.

“He’s hungry to do better but he will not have that bike until around middle of the season so he has to be patient. Aprilia is still developing and they want four bikes that are exactly the ಌsame for the end of the year which, I think, is a great target.”

Fernandez went on to finish twelfth on the 🌊test timesheets with his 23 bike just 0.5s from leader Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) with a best lap of 1m 36.905♏s.

“I’m happy with my current bike, which we were working on mostly today, espec▨ially on the electronic side and the inform🧔ation we gathered today will surely help us in the future,” Fernandez said.

“The runs that Raul made on his current bike showed gains in qualifying trim and fresh tyres, with fine tuni𒐪ng in the electronics settings,” Zeelenberg said.

Aleix Espargaro w𓂃as the fastest Aprilia rider, in seventh place (+0.339s).