Portimao MotoGP: Aleix Espargaro matches Aprilia best, 'podium this year' | MotoGP
"We have a good bike, good balance, but we still need the last step of competitiveness." For comparison, Espargaro had been 16sec from victory on his way to eighth place in last November's Portimao race. "[Eight seconds] can feel like it's a big step, but it's not like this," he said. "The difference between every rider and every machine in MotoGP every time is smaller and smaller. So last year we were not that bad, and this year we are not that good. "But we are a little bit more close, also my feeling with the bike is a bit better, so my confidence increased. So it's like a circle, step by...