Mika Kallio was surprised to discover how far off KTM was from MotoGP’s pacesetting teams in Friday practice at Valencia, describing the gap as “absolutely too big”. Ahead of its full-time debut in MotoGP in 2017, the Austrian manufacturer entered the 2016 season finale as a wild-card with Kallio as its sole rider. However, despite a promising showing during the in-season test at Austria in July, Kallio ended up bottom of the timesheets on the first day at Valencia, three seconds off the pace of Jorge Lorenzo. “At the moment, the reality is the results we did,” admitted the Finn. “We were not showing our best today, the gap to the front was absolutely too big. “That was a big...
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