The 2022 Moto2 world champion scored a greatest results of fourth in an in any other case tough rookie marketing campaign final yr, although earned a MotoGP stick with Tech3 over Pol Espargaro as KTM discovered tips on how to clear up its three-riders-for-two-bikes downside.
Although on a factory-supported KTM with the brand new carbon fibre chassis, Fernandez has struggled to familiarize yourself with the 2024 RC16, which he feels is simply too comfortable in comparison with the body he utilized in 2023.
Out of the factors in seventeenth within the Qatar GP, Fernandez managed eleventh in Portugal – however was 23 seconds adrift of rookie team-mate Pedro Acosta in third.
Regardless of the tough season to date, Fernandez says he nonetheless has the help from KTM, whereas additionally noting that Acosta is “an excellent reference” for him to have the ability to study from.
“The reality is that the manufacturing unit is pushing for the 4 of us; even for me, though I am not exhibiting something,” he stated.
“Regardless of that I am getting all of the help from them.
“So, I’ve to thank them for the therapy in these moments when it’s costing me. Let’s examine if I pays them again with outcomes quickly.”
He added: “Pedro’s podium is brutal. The whole lot he’s doing, on the whole. On a brand new circuit, the place he has by no means educated with MotoGP.
“We now have an excellent reference at KTM. We now have him at residence, so let’s examine if we are able to copy him and get near him.”
Fernandez’s eleventh within the Portuguese Grand Prix got here as he made “an enormous step ahead” find a set-up that labored higher for him and feels he gained’t should do something radical to the RC16 once more this weekend in Austin.
“We made an enormous step ahead,” he stated. “In Portugal I used to be capable of deal with the dearth of grip circumstances a bit higher.
“We now have to continue to grow. The tempo isn’t but what we would like, however we have now to go little by little.
“We’re altering the bike quite a bit throughout the weekends. Nevertheless it’s nothing I do not ask for. To any extent further, absolutely, I’ll ask to be roughly secure in that sense, to have the ability to agency up a base.
“Absolutely, we can’t should invent something for Austin.”
If issues don’t enhance for Fernandez, nevertheless, he didn’t rule out the opportunity of reverting to the 2023 chassis he raced final yr after the Spanish Grand Prix on the finish of the month.
