Miguel Oliveira and KTM as a whole have 𒀰endured a difficult sta🤪rt to the 2021 season, but the Portuguese rider heads to his home round at Portimao ready to pickup where he left off six months ago. 

Oliveira produced as dominating a victory as any rider manage🍎d throughout 2020 at the Algarve International Circuit, as he led from lap one until the checkered flag. 

While it hasn’t been a great opening two races in 2021 for the Austrian team, It wasn't all bad at Qatar which has somewhat become KTM’s𝔍 achilles heel as a circuit, as Olivei🌌ra and team-mate Brad Binder both significantly improved from the first to second race. 

If not for a considerabꦉle loss of information on his dashboard early on which cost Oliveira a few tenths per lap, it could have been a double top ten finish with Binder claiming eighth place. 

Speaking about this, Oliveira added: "Yeah Qa🍷tar was a difficult couple of rounds for us. The second race was slightly better, but we had a small technical issue with our dashboard. 

"Despite that we had a stronger weekend, and coming her😼e we would like to continue on the journey that we f🍨inished last year. 

"There is some e✨xpectation, but we should not be worried about repeating or improving a result.

"Instead just enjoy riding a GP th▨at is a privilege for me to race in my home country, and just enjoy the normal process of working during the week𓆉end and have fun at this beautiful track."

On Wednesday fans turned up in t🍌heir droves to show supp💖ort for Oliveira - remarkable scenes. 

But with no fans allowed in attendance, the 26 year-old was asked whether it has th♔e same feel as a traditional home GP. 

He said: "Absolutely it feels like a home GP. Firstly I didn’t haveও to take a plane anywhere which was nice and is a big bonus, so it feels like home. 

"I got this huge 🃏reception yesterday from people who cannot be in the grandstands, and who gathered up by the entrance just to cheer me on an𒀰d it is a great feeling. 

"To be honest, I got a little bit nervous because I was not expecting it, but it was a really nice surprise. So hopefully when it comes Sunday night ꦍthey will be 𒁏as happy as me."