Enea Bastianini says a brand new seat unit for KTM on the Valencia MotoGP take a look at was “a giant change” from what he utilized in 2025, however “the steadiness was not right”.
The Italian’s first season aboard the KTM with Tech3 delivered flashes of promise, however qualifying struggles hindered his outcomes.
Trying to make a step over the winter forward of the 2026 season, Enea Bastianini accomplished 47 laps on Tuesday on the Valencia take a look at, as he tried varied new KTM aerodynamic ideas.
Considered one of which was a brand new rear aero and seat unit, which delivered “kind of the identical lap time” as his normal bike.
Extra importantly, his suggestions on the brand new aero aligned with that of his KTM stablemates.
“It was a giant change from what we used all 12 months,” he stated on Tuesday.
“And I believe that seat has potential. I used it only for two exits, as a result of I used to be with a unique chassis.
“The seat, I believe, may be good, however the steadiness was not right in the mean time, and I most popular to leap once more on the traditional bike.
“However the lap time was the identical, kind of from the beginning.
“We had been a bit unfortunate, as a result of from the primary a part of the take a look at the monitor wasn’t usable and I didn’t work on the set-up.
“We tried some fairings.
“All of the fairings have one thing constructive, but in addition one thing adverse.
“We have to combine one thing. Our feedback are kind of the identical from all of the riders. That is higher for KTM.”
Pedro Acosta led the KTM cost throughout Tuesday’s take a look at at Valencia, with the Spaniard fifth general after 53 laps.
He famous that KTM’s new aero had many ‘gray areas’, which made it laborious to find out what the very best path for improvement is.
