The series includes interviews, background information, in-depth analysis, and opinion, and is available to everyone supporting the site by taking out a subscription. This is part of a regular series of unique insights into the world of motorcycle racing, exclusive for site supporters. GRAVEL BINDER FULLIf you are already a subscriber, log in to read the full text. You can find out more about subscribing to here. To read the remaining 791 words of this article, you need to sign up to become a site supporter by taking out a subscription. So tomorrow is the day where we can maybe see some different things out there." To be honest, we tried no really huge things, but the small things that we did try made a difference. We managed to find something that helped us to turn in a little bit better as well, so the combination gave us a small step. Played especially with the clutch and the engine brake, to be honest, to try and help us with corner entry. "Other than that, we tried some front forks, didn't really work too well. It was mainly a lot of small changes, Binder explained. So we managed to improve that slightly today. "We had specific things we wanted to work on, one being stopping the bike on corner entry," the South African explained "We've always had an issue, especially lately, we've been struggling with the rear pushing the front tire. On Tuesday, Binder had worked on issues for the remaining six races of 2022. "So it's clear that when you put things on the bike, often things aren't positive, but it gives you a clear direction of, OK, this is better, that's better, that can be better when you put them together, and we check them like that." They're here for a purpose, not like shooting in the dark," Binder explained. "Now it's very clear to me that everything that they bring is to touch one of our issues. The new approach is to only bring things which the factory were convinced are a step forward, part of the validation work done by Dani Pedrosa. "Last year we were changing everything every week, and we didn't actually know sometimes if we'd made a step forward or a step back," Binder said. This was a reversal of the approach of previous years, after riders and crew chiefs complained they simply had too much to test on race weekends, and no time to work on race setup. "I think we needed to start at a point at the beginning of the season, so we locked in the chassis, we locked in the aero, we locked in a whole lot of things, and said, OK, that's our base, now, how do we make this better?" Brad Binder offered a good explanation of KTM's method of working compared with last year. The fact that their riders spoke mostly about the work for this year, and avoided talking about the 2023 bike meant we really did learn very little about the bike.īut let's start with KTM. The bike Dani Pedrosa was testing had some major changes to it, though you had to look carefully to see them exactly. KTM were flying under the radar a little, but they were also bringing some major updates. It was hard for HRC to hide what they were doing. Honda were at a disadvantage here: they had Marc Marquez back, which obviously brought with it a lot of attention they had a widely publicized and visually conspicuous new aluminum swingarm from Kalex and Marc Marquez was trying new aero. The two factories which saw the biggest changes at the Misano test were KTM and Honda.
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