Fabio Quartararo’s first assessment of new teammate Alex Rins

LCR Honda rider Rins will move to Yamaha to take the place of Franco Morbidelli in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2024 MotoGP rider line-up, alongside Quartararo.
Rins is the only non-Ducati rider ♋to produce a grand prix victory this season so could test 202𝐆1 world champion Quartararo in different ways.
“Concerning Alex, it’s a new challenge for the team and for him, also for me,” Quartararo said.&nbs🌜p;
“He has a lot of♕ experience in totally different bikes.”
Rins, represen▨ting Suzuki, out-scored Quartararo in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
He wꦦill displace Morbidelli who, in four seasons together, out-performed Quartararo only in 2020.
“I 🌠spent almost all my MotoGP career w🎃ith Franco, we have known each other a long time. I wish him the best,” Quartararo said about his outgoing teammate.
Quartararo was 🌜restricted to 15th at the British MotoGP - a result so disappointing, he exchanged a funny tortoise emoji with the equally-annoyed Marc Marquez via social media afterwards.
“The first part of the season was not what I expected,” he admitte✨d.
“You need to look forward. The summer breakജ was good for me.
“We feel, and know, that we’♓re not ready to fight for a podium. We need to do everything g🔜reat for a great result.”
Yamaha managing director Lin Jarvis added: “The first half has been disappointing, wi🥂thout doubt. Compare last year’s fi⛎rst half to this year, it’s disappointing.
“We expected to do better, we haven’t fulfilled our obje💎ctives in the first half. We’ve been struggling frequently, we’ve only made two podiums.
“It’s not up to the standard that we’re accustomed to, and where we want to be. We have a lot to work on, and a lot of thiಞngs to improve upon in the future.”

Jarvis detailed Yamaha’s issues: “The engine is one of the positive things. In previouౠs years we have struggled with top speed and our riders were unable to be competitive in many situations on the straights.
“The engine has definitely been a positive change. Some people are⛄ critical of it but it has solved one problem - it doesn’t give us an advantage, but it has red🤪uced the disadvantage that we had in the past.
“We’ve seen other manufacturers make steps forwards in the chassis and handling areas, this used 🔥to be our forte.
“We no loﷺnger have anꦐy advantage in the chassis area. This makes it difficult to fight.
“We are struggling i🙈n qualifying and, in this format, there is no time to extract the best from our package.
𓆏“We have only two riders on track. We are on the back foot in every race event.
“This creates difficulty for our riders who a🥃re having to ride beyond the limit - we’ve seen crashes, 🥂fights, problems.
“I♛t’s difficult if you’re not qualify🍨ing well to make good race results.”

Jame𒐪s was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.