168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini followed up his top Honda qualifying performance (13th) and best Sprint race finish of the season (10th) with 14th place in Sunday’s Australian MotoGP.

The Italian set the fastest race lap by a Honda rider (+0.646s) on the penultimate lap of the grand prix, a quirk matched by Fabio๊ Quartararo (Yamaha), Enea Bastianini (Ducati) and Fabio di Giannan🍒tonio (Ducati).

Marini’s Repsol team-mate Joan Mir and LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami set their best race laps on 21 of 27, with Johann Zarco also comparatively 𒆙late on lap 18.

While Bastianini and to a lesser extent di Giannantonio have renowned tyre-saving skills, 🅺the performance delay for the Honda riders underlined difficulties generating heat in the rear tyre when using ‘harder’ compounds.

“It cost us so many laps to 𓆉put temperature on the edge of the harder compound [left side] of the [soft rear] tyre,” said Marini, who also lost ground at the start when he had to avoid a spinning Marc Marquez.

“For this, we a♏re not able to fight with the others, especially against KTM and ꦅAprilia.

“We are slow at the beginning. But then after six laps, when the rear tyre is ready, the pace s🐼tarted to be super competitiveܫ and I could enjoy a lot.

“The feeling with the bike was one of the best of the se🉐ason.

“So we have to 💦try to understand how to make🐼 the rear tyre work better. This is the same problem.”

“It’s a matter of weight distribution”

Although yet to break into the grand prix top ten on the RC213💫V, Marini is encouraged by the progress made so far this season.

His only point during the opening 13 rounds c꧃ame after post-race tyre pressure penalties in Germany, but Marini has since scored in three of the last four rounds (being taken out in Indonesia).

“We already solved man🌱y problems,” he said. “Now the bike is much better than last year and the beginning of the season.

“But still when the [tyre] compound is so har🎉d, it's difficul🅘t for us.”

The 27-year-oldꦰ says the area to work on is clear.

“For sure, it’s a matter of weight distribution iꦆn the bike,” he explained. “We have 🐭so much weight in the front because in the past the [successful] bikes were like this.

“Especially wit♋h the Bridgestone tyres, [Honda was] always winning with this traditional❀ way to build the bike for the Japanese.

“Foꦬr the rider, it is also fantastic to have this kind of feeling w♐ith the front tyre.

"Buꦅt the problem is that the rear is the best part of the Michelin tyres and we are not able to use all the potential of the rear tyre.

“For sure, the target for next year will 🉐be to try to change a little bit the weight distribution and to load more the rear tyre, like the other bikes do.”

While Ducati is renowned for its rear grip, Marini thinks another manufacturer is even better at putting heat qui🌃ckly into the rear rubber.

“I think we have to look at KTM especially b𓂃ecause they are the master of this,” he saiཧd.

“Already i♚n lap onꦬe maybe sometimes they push even too much on the rear tyre.

“So maybe they are on the opposite side, but we have to work, try t꧅o analyse them and try to find a way to improve this situation.

“Because, in my opi𒁏nion, if we are able to solve it, we can fight for P7 or P8 at the moment. 

"But we have𓆉 to find a solution for this problem.”

Marini finished 24 seconds from victory on Sunday and nine seconds behind a multi-ri🎃der fight for sixth-to-eighth places.

Zarco was the leading Honda rider in 12th, fiv♓e-seconds behind that battle an𒁃d four seconds ahead of Marini.