Like six-time MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, Joan Mir and new teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins, Nakag🎀ami has 🅰seen Honda bring a raft of new parts for the 2023 season.

However, the desired effect from those upgrades has not taken place as of yet, as the performance increase needed to chall🅷enge the likes of Ducati and Aprilia was not there in Sepang or Portimao.

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Of course, testing is completely🐲 different to a race weekend and Nakagami is hoping that when competitive racing begins, Honda will find themselves higher up the order.

But in order for that to happen the Japanese rider, who was expected to be replaced by fellow countryman Ai Ogura befo𒉰r♛e the Moto2 runner-up decided to stay in the middleweight class, admits he and the bike need to improve. 

"The three days in Sepang and the two days here [Portimao] haven’t been easy, but today, in terms of lap times, everything is very tight, the gap has reduced, and we’ve taken a step," said the LCR Honda 🐠rider after day-two in Portimao. 

"The feedback with the bike is better, but both the bike and I need to improve. We could take another step forward during the race weekend, so let’s keep working. The team has d﷽one a good job as always."

Fernandez ‘able to replicate’ late race pace in MotoGP already?

Perhaps coming to the end of his MotoGP career after this season, Nakagami finds himself in a very different situation to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Augusto Fernandez, with𒁏 the Spaniard set to debut in the premier class with GASGAS Tech 3 KTM. 

After a strong test in Sepang, Fernandez felt as though race paceꦕ was one of the areas he needed to confirm as a strong point.

Often able to find late racꦇe pace compared to his rivals in Moto2 last season, t✅he Spaniard seems to have continued that trend heading into his opening race as a MotoGP rider.

🦂Speaking after the test, Fernandez said: "We had a good morning and𒊎 made good progress with the bike. We did a race simulation and I am happy because I had a good race pace and felt good physically. 

"I was able to understand more things about the bike, such as tyre management and how to r☂ide it in race conditions. In Moto2, I was always very good towards the last part of the races, so it is good𒀰 that I am also able to replicate this to the MotoGP class. 

"In the after🥃noon, we worked on a time-attack and I think that we still have a lot of work to do to un♚derstand how to get the maximum of new soft tyres."