Enea Bastianini: “My approach is not correct” to KTM MotoGP bike

“Itꦚ’s not natural for me and, ♎at the moment, I can’t be very fast like Pedro…”

Enea Bastianini, 2025 MotoGP Buriram Test. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Enea Bastianini, 2025 MotoGP Buriram Test. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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The end of the 2025 MotoGP winter testing period seems to have come too soon for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini, who feels he still has to adapt his style to thﷺe KTM RC16 he has moved to from Ducati for this yearꦓ.

The Italian ended the 2025 MotoGP preseason in Buriram feeling like he’d made progreꦦss, but also like there was much more mar🐠gin for him to improve.

“Overall, I’m a bit happier than [Wednesday], because this afternoon I improved a bit my lap time,” Bastianini said after the final day of MotoGP preseason testi♓ng in Buriram.

“About my pace, I’m꧋ not very happy at the moment because I committed many mistakes during my laps – sometimes I can’t brake hard, sometimes yes, and at the moment I don’t know very well the situation.

“For the race we haveജ to do something more, to understand better.

“Now, it’s important this period [between the test and the race] to study better the d🥂ata and🐷 to learn, because the bike is different and my approach at the moment is not correct.”

Enea Bastianini explains 'the problem'

Bastianini said he and his crew chief – Alberto Giribuola, who previou🔯sly worked with Bastianini at the Avintia and Gresini Ducati teams – have tried to use solutions that worked when Bastianini was aboard the Desmosedici, but, in the end, it has bee✱n Pedro Acosta’s settings that have proven more beneficial.

“The problem is that we have brought the direction of when we were in Ducati, and with this bike [it doesn’t work],” the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tech3 KTM rider said.

“I tried to do some corner speed, but Pedro [Acosta] does completely the 🤡opposite riding style – he stops the bike and restarts.

“We have tried a bit his setup and it’s worked🍸 well, I stayed much faster, and probab𒁃ly the approach of this bike is this one.

“But it’s not natural for me and, at the mome𓂃nt, I can’t be very fast like Pedro.”

He added: “It’s not natural, because after [learning] a lot from other ✨bikes and to come to this one it’s not easy, but at the end I did a good lap,” he said.

“ I wasn’t at 100 per cent, because for me at the m🙈oment it’s not important to go to 100 per cent, but the lap time was more or less good.”

Finally, Bastianini 🐼conceded that his “approach” needs to change if he is to succe♐ed on the RC16.

“The approach has to be different, because the bike works very different and it’s necessary 💜to adapt to a✱nother style,” he said.

“Also, when you have t⛦he new tyre, and when you [go back to] the used one, the bike changes completely and you have to use another style again.

“I didn’t 🌄do a Sprint simulation today because I had some problem of vibration, but I think it will be like🥃 this in the race – it will be complicated.”

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