While 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales made a dramatic breakthrough with the 2024 Aprilia in Portimao, Trackhouse rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira felt he is still taking ‘baby steps’ with the factory-spec ꦐmachine.

After a tough pre-season and opening Qatar round, Vinales romped to a Sprint victory in Portimao and was on course for a grand prix podium until hitting gearbox proཧblems.

The Spaniard’s last lap exit left team-mate Aleix Espargaro, who had shone on the 2024 RS-GP until Portimao, as the top Aꦫprilia in eighth pla𝔍ce, 1.5s clear of Oliveira.

“Real baby steps!” said Oliveira, 🐎♎when asked if he was progressing with the factory-spec bike. “Would have liked something bigger.”

The Port💮uguese, who crossed the finish line 24s behind race winner Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati), added: 

“The feeling I have is good. I'm fully adapted to the Aprilia riding style and e⛦verything, but just the bike is not working as it should do and it's quite frustrating. But we need to keep working and try to find a way.”

While Espargaro has something of a unique riding style, Vinales’ Portimao b♔reakthrough could provid🌃e vital clues for Oliveira.

“Luckily we had an Apri🎀lia winning the Sprint which can allow us to compare the data,” Oliveira had said on Saturday evening.

Although admitting Vinales is “for sure” a much closer match in terms of physical size and riding style, the five-time ༺KTM MotoGP race winner was quick to credit the #🎶12:

“It's not only the [data] comparison, Ma⛎verick is riding very well. He is effortlessly riding quite good, doing really nice pick-ups [out of the corners] and seems not ꦑto have so much trouble to go in fast into the corners.

“I think he just clicked with the bi𝓡ke and there’s no coming back! I think he found the sweet spot for him and it's working. We are not there yet. I think we are 95% there, but 5% now in MotoGP is﷽ a huge difference.”

The speed of Vinales’ turnaround, after barely breaking into the top ten in Qatar, also highlighted how quic🌌kly things can change in MotoGP.

“We know this is the category. One day you can be deep in the mud, the other day you can be completely refreshed,” Oliveira said. “And this is it, you know. W🦹e have to ke♕ep fighting, persisting and trying to find a way with the team.”

Oliveira will continue searching for the sweet spot on his💝 202﷽4 RS-GP at the Trackhouse team’s home COTA round, this weekend.

Team-mate Raul Fernandez, the only Aprilia r꧙ider now on the 2023 spec bike, is still seeking his first points of the year.