The first day of the official Sepang MotoGP test was the thirꦕd day of riding in Malaysia for Fabio Qu🌠artararo, who is running a one-word message in his cockpit as a reminder.

Quartararo was spotted having the word ‘smooth’ in his rider cockpit on the openingꦰ day in Sepang, something he said was a part ofꦫ a conscious effort to change his riding style.

“It was last year that –  especially when we started to work on the electronics, I will say from Thailand 💞– I clearly see the Ducati riding one way and I wanted to change completely the electronics, myself,” Quartararo said.

“♎My instinct [when I go] on the track is to push li🐟ke hell and to really maximise all the time the bike.

“But sometimes feeling slower makes 🥂you faster, so this I always have on my dashboard, the 🥂word ‘smooth’, that makes me remember always to keep calm on the bike.”

Overaꦦll, Quartararo was positive about💜 his first day of the official test.

“Basically it was just we tested some electronics today, a fꦦew settings th♏at we tested a lot during the Shakedown, but it was just a reconfirmation,” he said.

“It was a good day for us, especially for the engineers to know a littleꦉ bit more the direction we have to go.”

Quartararo added: “I don’t want⛦ to be too positive from the beginning. I think that we ✅work in a good way.

“It’s ꧟only the first day of the test and we have to see also the others.

“We can see already many of them went super-fast 𝓀on the first day, [but] it’s already three days that we are here.

“So, we have to be neutral and try🐟 to work well and we will see where we are in Thailand.”