Unfortunately for the Australian, former team-mate and reigning champion168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Francesco Bagnaia also cut 0.8s from his best race lap, leaving the test with a new unofficial record of 1m🌃 37.968s.

Miller reached a 1m 3🌌8.909s, two-tenths from the official pole record, but the ultra-close timesheets meant it was only good enough for 17th place, 0.9s behind Bagnaia a♒nd 0.4s from KTM team-mate Brad Binder.

“We managed to drop another🐲 second today,” Miller said on Sunday evening. “I thought, ‘a couple of tenths off the lap record, that's not too b꧙ad...’

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“The pr👍oblem is, the other boys are now nearly eight-tenths under the 𒁃lap record! But anyway, we're getting there.

“One more day wouldn't go astr🥃ay for sure, but we ൲haven't got that privilege.”

Miller has had just six days of winter testing - one in Valencia, three in Sepa💛ng and then two in Portimao - to try and adapt from the dominant Desmosedici to RC16, which is without a dry win since Catalunya 2021.

“I think we made a step today in terms of my comfort level on the bike, and I was able to feel more and more com💮fortable,” Miller added. “We were able to lean it over more, carry more speed, release the brakes ea𝓀rly and so on.”

While Binder spoke of a general lack of rear grip holding him back, Miller has highlighted a lack of corner-exit per🍨formance since his debut test at Valencia last November.

“We also made some big strides in terms of electronics,” he said. “They need a bit of polishing noꦦw, we've been trying to rewrite code and so on in between exits and 🅺spending too much time in the box, so the boys are rushing through it.

"For sure all that now needs to be taken away, diagnosed and polished up for 💙when we come back here.“

Miller: ‘Racing’s always different’

While the Portimao timesheets didn’t ꦦmake pretty reading for KTM or Honda – whose MotoGP riders filled 7 of the last 🌼9 places - Miller feels he’s going into the race weekend having found a ‘decent base setting’.

“Racing's always different,” said the four-t🅰ime Mo🌠toGP winner. “I think we've got a decent base setting now.

"We're sort of back to where w꧙e were in Malaysia, especially in the front end of the bike. I didn🦂’t have the best of front feelings [on day one] but we made some steps to remedy that.

“So we're getting there and I think we'll be able to hopefully put it all tog🧔ether. As I said, there's some tidying up to be done in terms of electronics, just to get the thing a little bit more consistent over race distance. “

The Portimao MotoGP takes place from March 24-26.