Of the five 2022 M🃏otoGP rookies, none have a bigger job on their hands at this week's Jerez test tha🅘n Darryn Binder.

While Remy Gardner, Raul Fernandez, Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio di Giannantonio have taken the usual route through Moto2, Binder is the first rider si♛nce Jac𝄹k Miller in 2015 to leap straight to the premier-class from Moto3.

Fortunately for the Soutꦰh African, the Yamaha M1 machinery ♐used by the new RNF team is considered the most rider-friendly on the grid.

And while the factory's world champion Fabio Quartararo may be pleading for more power to take on the Ducatis, it was an 'incredible' upgrade for Binder compared to the 250cc Honda he raced for S🍬RT this season.

"It's been a really awesome day for me," said Binder. "It's a dream to jump on a MotoGP bike, today I go🧔t my first chance and just started off really slowly, step-by-step, and it's incredible the power!

"I had a smile on my face all day. It was going good, unfortunately we didn't complete as many lapsꦿ as I would ha♐ve liked.

"We had some little issues with the bike and also with the temperatures, that's the main problem, we can💎't start too early and you can't ride too late. So I'd rather play it safe and go when the temperatures are good!

"But we're taking it step-by-step, just going slowly. The bike feels rea🌊lly, really nice to ride, it's just to get used to the power and then learn as much as possible how to ride this kind of bike.💜"

Binder – riding a 2021 spec machine - was 27th and last on the timesheets after his first 49 laps as a MotoGP rider, 4.4s behind Takaaki Nakܫaꦉgami (Honda) and 1s from fellow rookie Bezzecchi (VR46 Ducati).

While it had been a s🤪pecial experience, Binder wasn't overawed.

"Honesty at the end of the day it's still just a motorcycle, of course the brak🦄es are special and the power is insane, but when you get scared you close the throttle! So it's under your control at t𓄧he end of the day," he said.

"It’s just that I think today was a lit🌼tle bit extra tricky with the wind. I'm not used to a bike wheelieing down the whole straight and when it starts to wheelie and the wind catches you it can be a bit tricky to keep going in a straight l♉ine!"

One thing that will help with the wheelies is the ride-height device, an area Binder is yet t﷽o touch.

"Right now, it's just put in tyres and fuel, doing lapsꦺ," he said. "Not fiddling with the set-up at all and I'm not using the ride-height device or any of these things. I'm just going out there, riding.

"I come in and 'that was great! That felt awesome! Thanks guys let's go again!' Hopefully tomorrow we can do a few more [laps than today] and just get faster and faster. Tha🎐t's the goal."

Helping Binder's adaptation is🔜 brother and double KTM MotoGP winner Brad as well as RNF team-mate A🍌ndrea Dovizioso.

"My brother's obviously given me as much advice as possible, to make sure you bring the tyres up to temperature and make sure the brakes are up to temperature before you start to 🐷push. And all of these things.,☂" Darryn said.

"But apart from that the biggest advice was just to take it step-by-step, don’tꦯ rush anything, don’t do anything silly in the beginning. Just go out and enjoy yourself and at the end of the day my brother always says, 'It's just a motorbike. You know how to ride a bike, just go out there, take your time. It's just the first test, take it easy and learn what you need to work on over the w🃏inter to be stronger next season'."

Dovizioso has been able to💖 pass on some knowledge gained by fini꧒shing the season on a 2019 spec Yamaha, rather than the '21 used by Binder.

"He had a chat to me at lunchtime and gave me a few tips and some advice," Binder said. "His main thing he said to me was 'just go out there, do laps and take it slow and build-up'. He gave me some ideas on how to ride the bike and what you need. but right now the🐻 main t𒀰hing I need is time."

Tech3 KTM's Fernandez was the 🧔fastes♓t rookie, in 19th and 2.7s ahead of Binder. Dovizioso, trying the 2022 prototype for the first time, was just ahead of Fernandez in 18th.