168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo thinks his Yamaha is at♉ its worst-ever compared to rivals.

The 2021 champion was 11th in the 2024 season-opening Qatar MotoGP, with teammate Alex Rins 16th.

It was a dramatic reality check after an optimistic winter where Yamaha added key engineering recrui꧟t⛄s from Ducati, and were given developmental benefits through the new concessions rule.

But asked if 🦩his Yamaha is now the worst he has ever experienced, Quartararo was quoted by : "Compared to how the level is right now, I would say yes.

"We improved, so this is something difficult t🦂o say.

“But the level of our bike compared to the others, it's true that we are further tha👍n ev📖er.

"We are further than last year. We have improved a little bit but they are even better and faster than last year👍.

"So, the gap between all the European manufacturers and us is even bigger – even to Honda it felt that today we were ꦜmissing something, and they are also struggling a lot. But I felt we were even worse today."

Quartararo bleakly admitted he f🌠eels like he’s racing in a "championship of the others” featuring only the six Yamaha and Honda riders.

Concerningly in Qatar, the Yamaha appeared to have lost speed through long co༒rners 🎃- which was a strength, last season.

“As soon as there are long corners wit♕h a lot of acceleration, which was our strong point in 2021 where I pulled away from the Ducatis in the triple right, it is now our weak point,” he described.

"So, that's why we are questioning ourselves as to wh﷽y we are slow in🎀 these types of corners."

The bigger picture for Quartararo is that he is among many riders whose contract will expire 🐲at the end of this season.

Despite an entire season of woe (🐻2023 was the first season in 20 years without a single Yamaha MotoGP race win) Quartararo retains a strong reputation.

Yamaha are at serious risk of losing their staꦫr rider if a more competitive manufacturer can offer him a seat for 2025.

But the concessions were never going 🅷to be a quick-fix, so the Japanese manufacturer will hope that their fortunဣes steadily increase as the 2024 season goes on.

The second round is next weekend in Portimao.