168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo was handed a reminder - if he ever needed it - that improving the Yamaha will be a long-term goal on Saturday at the Americas MotoGP.

Quartararo finished the sprint race 15th, and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins was 16th.

Only Repsol Honda’s Luca Marini was behind them, ༺of the riders who completed the spꦏrint.

The writing was o✃n the wall for Yamaha as early as Friday.

🌱They ended practice in 17th and 18th, with only the four Hondas goiꦐng slower.

Despite the optimi🌳sm in the camp over tying Quartararo down to the best-paid contract in MotoGP, this weekend so far has been a harsh reminder of the competitiveness of their bike.

“After the tough Friday sessions, we knew𓆉 this race weekend would be🌟 an uphill battle,” said team director Massimo Meregalli.

ﷺ“Following a less than ideal start yesterday, we had a lot of things to try this m🧸orning, but we didn't have that much time – just the 30-minute FP2 before qualifying.

“In the end, Alex and Fabio qualified further down the starting grid than we would have liked, in P15 and P16, and we knew this would 🎉make the sprint and [Sunday’s] race even harder.

“We went into 🅷the 10-lap sprint with the objective to get some useful data, and we will make adjustm💞ents accordingly.

“We'll try 😼the tweaked settings in [Sunday’s] warm up and hopefully this will pay off during the race.”

Quartararo said about his sprint: “I was behin𝕴d Alex Marquez, and I was faster in Sector 2 and 3, but he was faster in Sector 1 and 4🌼.

“Every time I caught up, he pu𝐆lled away again, so I couldn't overt𓂃ake him on the last laps.

“That said, on every run we did this weekend, we tried quite big changes on the♛ 🐬bike.

“Also, for the sprint race we went out with a bike that we never used, and I think that's something good a๊bout being in the position that we are in now: we can try big changes.

“I think that the way in which we arꦕe workin🍃g is good, even if the results don't reflect it. We are trying things we never did in the past.

“[Sunday] we will try something new again in the morning, and if that gives usಌ new ideas for the race, then we will try that.

“We don't have to be conservative in 𓆉our current position, and trying different things is giving us a sense of direction to work towards, and this gives us positive ideas for the future.”

Rins, who won the 2023 Ameri🔥cas MotoGP with LCR Honda, reacted to his sprint: “It was a very difficult sprint, even more so🧔 because I got involved in the problem that Marco [Bezzecchi] had at the start.

“Then, in the second corner, I w🅠ent outside the track with him, and I was last.

“Then I tried to ride on my own and recover pos🌳itions, I did some💫 overtakes.

“It was hard. We were struggling in the second half of the sprint ⛎race.

“The last few laps, I was not feeling enough suppoꦦrt on the front.

“We're checking why this is the case. 🅰I need ✅to adapt and find out how to ride in a slightly different way to not have these problems.”