Monster Yamaha riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins were left 17th and 18th in Friday practice for the Americas MotoGP at COTA, sending them b🐼oth into Saturday’s Qualifying 1 ꦦsession.

The pair were separated by just 0.036s but 1.4s behind fastest man Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) and ha🍰lf-a-second from the final top ten place for direct Q2 access.

“It was more difficu💎lt than we expected,” confessed Quartararo, who was riding for the first time since his new Yamaha con꧙tract was announced.

“We tried many things to try to find more turning compared to 🔯this morning, but we didn't really find it. W♔e expected the times to be a little bit better and not this far from the top. But let's see tomorrow.

“Hopefully we can find small🌳 things to improve the feeling. The top speed is a positive point.

“We were able to play a little bit more with the power tod🌊ay, especially in slow corners. We have a little bit more aero, but we need to improve the ♐turning.

“I feel like we soon will mak꧋e the step that we want.”

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Defending COTA winner🍌 Rins was riding the M1 for the first time in Texas.

“We are working quite hard. We started FP1 and it was bit difficult to find the best way to be fast. I'm struggling on the change꧟ of direction,” he explained. “This is not new, but this time I also found it quite difficult to stop the bike on hard braking. But we are working to find a solution, for sure.

“Let's see. Today was a good day in terms of laps and in terms of trying different things on the bike. So, right now we need to ana✃lyse, and we need to select♈ the best package for the qualy and the Sprint tomorrow.”

Team director Massimo Meregalli admitted the Yamaha riders were further behind than hope�൩�d.

“We are further behind here at COTA than we had hoped. Our goal was, as always, to be inside the top 10 to have the best chances for qualifying tomorrow, but we are about a s🔥econd off the mark where we want to be,” Meregalli said.

“Consequently, both Fabio and Álex have to take part in Q1 tomorrow. We need to work hard to find a time impr﷽ovement and get ready for qualifying and the Sprint.”

Both Quartararo and Rins went directly through to Qualifying 2 at the previous Portimao round, while the Frenchman finished on the podium with third place at COTA last🥀 yea🐎r.

But Yama♋ha wa𝓡sn’t the only manufacturer to struggle on day one. 

Both factory KTMs and all four Hondas also missed the top ten cut, creating a hotly co♊ntested Qualifying 1 line-up, where only the top two riders will progress to the pole position shootout.