168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini was the fastest rider on track during the closing laps of the COTA MotoGP, as he complete🐈d an impressive 17th to 7th recovery🔴.

Bastianini’s second top ten of the season has put the Tech3 rider between factory riders Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta for twel꧒fth in the early world championship standings.

More importantly, Bastianini bel✅ieves his COTA charge was made possible by a set-up change, rather than his renowned tyre-saving skills.

That gives the Italian optimism as he heads to another of his f🌜avourite circuits, Lusail, venue for this weekend’s Qatar round.

"W🎉e did a good step forward in Austin, I felt good in the race and we got a great result from 17th on the grid to 7th, and I think that we can do another step this week in Qatar,” said Bastian🌳ini, a Qatar winner for Gresini Ducati in 2022.

“Lusail is one of my favourite tracks, where we had great moments in the past, so I am really curio🌄us to go there and see how we will perform with the KTM."

Recalling Austin, Bastianini explained: “For warm-up, we changed something again on t꧟he bike and I was confident for the💖 race.

“In the last 4-5 laps me and Bezzecchi were the fastest riders on track and I fe🌞lt ‘together’ with the♈ bike for the first time.

“In Thailand, I was fast💦 in the race, but I rode with a lot of confidence for the first time at COTA.

“We did a great job with the team b🏅ecause we did not start very well𒀰 but we left very happy.”

Like most KTM riders, Bastianini 🧸has been struggling to control vibration ꦛfrom the rear tyre but also felt the bike lacked stability.

“Vibration has been the main problem with the bike,” he confirmed. “But also one of the worst problems was the stability, it was so diffi♍cult for me to push.

“It happened also [in the COTA race] but just at the start. When the𒉰 tyre gri🧔p dropped it was coming better.”

Yet to break the top five in any race so far this season,  KTM has a decent recent record at Qatar, including last year’s double podiuꦍm by Brad Binder.

"[Qatar] is a track that usualღly suits our bike, and last seasoไn, there was a KTM on both sprints and race podiums," said Tech3 team manager Nicolas Goyon.

“Both Enea Bastianini and Maverick Viñales are 🎀arriving from Austin with an improved feeling on the bike.

“Enea scored his best KTM result, and has most importantly f🌌elt better and more in control 🗹on the KTM.

“In addition, both of them had sﷺome important aerodynamics tests last week, which will for sure help theꦐm find extra speed.

“All in one, I am confident that they will both arrive in Doha with a lot of motivation, and we can’t wait to get🅺 back on track with them."

Team-mate Maverick Vinales is alsဣo a former Qatar MotoGP winner, in 2017 and 2021 for Yamaha.