{"id":645532,"date":"2026-05-02T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645532\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:05:09","slug":"the-changes-miguel-oliveira-made-to-get-hungarian-worldsbk-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645532\/","title":{"rendered":"The changes Miguel Oliveira made to get Hungarian WorldSBK podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Miguel Oliveira was able to turn his Hungarian WorldSBK weekend around overnight, finishing on the podium in Race 1 after ending FP2 in ninth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oliveira was out-paced by seven Ducatis on Friday as well as Bimota\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/995628\/alex-lowes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Lowes<\/a>, but he was able to find himself on the second row after Superpole and converted that to his fourth podium in World Superbike in Race 1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The BMW rider explained afterwards that he had made some bike changes overnight to worked from FP3.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe made some electronic changes, nothing big,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/911996\/miguel-oliveira\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Oliveira<\/a> said, speaking to WorldSBK.com after Race 1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was quite clear where I was losing out and we tried to work on that this morning, even if the conditions were a bit hot and it wasn\u2019t as easy in FP3 to repeat the lap time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI managed to improve a little bit more and had the potential to go a bit faster, which is nice. We kept that for the race, and it was an important race to get some data for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oliveira\u2019s podium came after a second-row qualifying but also a start that saw him pushed out wide by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\/racer\/1044087\/yari-montella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yari Montella<\/a>, who he spent half the race trying to pass.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe made a good step in Superpole,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t put the whole lap together and with the yellow flags we didn\u2019t optimise what was left in the bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBeginning on the second row is a good starting place and I made a good start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was out-braked by Yari [Montella] which made me lose a lot of time. I was just not fast enough to stay close and overtake. Even with the mistakes he was making, I wasn\u2019t able to overtake him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was difficult but I managed to secure P3, managed to build a gap behind me and trying to control the gap, getting into my own pace and see what I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Looking to tomorrow, Oliveira added that it will be difficult to improve on third during Sunday&#8217;s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/wsbk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Superbike<\/a> races, given he was over 10 seconds behind the factory Ducatis at the front in Race 1.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to be difficult tomorrow,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a 10- or 12-second gap, but we\u2019ll give our best to try to reduce it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ll see about the position, but if I can fight again for the podium twice tomorrow, I\u2019ll leave Balaton Park happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miguel Oliveira was able to turn his Hungarian WorldSBK weekend around overnight, finishing on the podium in Race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,3557,806,805,803,804,23900,85],"class_list":["post-645532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-miguel-oliveira","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-rokit-bmw-motorrad-worldsbk-team","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}