After several tough races, Miguel 🦹Oliveira feels he’s back in contention for a top MotoGP result in Portimao. 

While the Portuguese rider failed to get the ♚result his pace probably deserved at Misano due to a late crash, the KTM rider has regained ‘connection to the bike’ ahead of his second home round of 2021.&n🥂bsp;

After thoroughly dominating the Portimao MotoGP a year ago, Oliveira was unable to replicate the same type of performanc🌊e back in April as he once again crashed out.

But after making steps forward since Austin, Oliveira has a different mentality to that of earlier in the campaign.&n🌼bsp;

"For sure we arrive at the home GP with a different kind of mentality. Beginning of the season we were having too many problems, the package was not really complete and🐈 the conditions were much different to what we had in November the previous season," added Oliveira🌊. 

"We didn’t have anything going our way, and even though I didn’t finish in Misano I had the connection back with the bike.&n𝐆bsp;

"Already in Texas I found🐭 a little bit more of this connection and although the result is not there, the feeling is there. 

"Now the key is to start tomorrow with this feeling and finis🦩h these last two races on a hi🎶gh."

While a victory might be a stretch too far this weekend🔯, the 26 year-old believes ‘we can achieve a ꦓgood result’.  

𝔉Oliveira said: "Yes I believe so. I think we hav🎃e every reason to believe that we can achieve a good result. 

"Of course, it’s always depending on a l🌄ot of things, but we know that the intention is there. 

"The opponents are going to be tough, everyone ꧂like෴s this track so it will be about adapting better than anyone on track."