• San Marino MotoGP, Misano - Fridayꩲ Practic🌊e Results

Marquez reportedly agreeing a switch to the♔ Gresini satellite team has dominated talk in the paddock at ꦛthe San Marino MotoGP this weekend.

And Quartarar🌺o, much like Marquez, is a former MotoGP champion now forced to languish at the back on a Japanese manufactured bike.

The Yamaha rider was asked ඣabout the Marquez gossip and said: “I never considered it. But I can understand it. 

“I won’t go more into it. It will be fun to see.”

Asked if the move would be finalised, Quartararo said: “I don’t know. I’m not in Marc’s hea🎶d. He’s the one to decide.”

Marquez and Quartararo’s current deals, withꦰ Honda and Yamaha respectively, conclude at the end of 2024.

But Marquez could engineer a swifter exit in order ꧑to join Gresini, alongside his 🌳brother.

It would lꦛeave Quartararo in a unique position, as a high-profile rider on an und𝓡erperforming bike, whose contract will be in its final year in 2024.

In Friday prac🍌tice at Misano, Quartaౠraro finished 13th, a place ahead of his teammate Franco Morbidelli.

“We tried the aero twice, a new setting,” he said. “In te🥀rms of lap time, I didn’t expect to do better. This is what I expected.

“It’s a shame we [went over] track limits but, whe꧋n you’re on the limit, this happe🦋ns.

“The new aer🃏o, for u🌠s, was clearly the way to go to be fast for practice.”

Quartararo was ask🐬ed if he’d keep the new aero on Saturday but replied: “No. It didn’t work. The feeling on ꩲthe bike is totally different. 

“It can be a good option but we need a lot of time to test it. The fairing ♈is different, much bigger. 

“We al𒉰ready lose a lot with power, and with us,🔴 we lose even more. 

“We made a step with the new aero but we need much more time to know that it’s working. If we are not in Q2 tomorrow, we kꦦnow the race will be bad꧙ for us.”