Fabio Quartararo has 12 Grand Prix wins, but he ranked his 11th-place finish at last weekend’s Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP as “one of my greatest ꦛraces”.

The French rider had narrowly missed out on points in Saturday’s Sprin🦄t after suffering a maj▨or loss of grip at the end of the race.

That prompted h🌞im to try the hard-💛compound rear tyre for the Grand Prix.

“We tried the hard [compound rear tyre] that we never tried duri൩ng the weekend,” Quartararo🌄 said.

“I think it was the correct choice, but we had no grip, and I had [Marco] Bezzecch🌱i in front with the soft [compound rear tyre] who was spi💙nning all the race and still had more grip than me at the end.

“So, c𒉰learly we know what we miss, we know what we have to improve, but I think I managed to get, to be honest, one of my greatest races.

“We finished only 10 seconds from the top, even if the position is not super-good,🔯 but I think we can be happy with the race that൲ we managed.”

On Saturday, most riders had written off the soft-compound rear tyre as a legitimate option for the full-dista𝔉nce race because of the drop-off experienced in the Sprint.

However, Quartararo said he wasn’t surprised to see Francesco Bagnaia, who ulti🐈mately won the race, take the soft rear.

“I knew that Pecco [Francesco Bagnaia] was going with the soft♎,🧔 because [what does he have to lose],” Quartararo said.

“The pace he had was incredible, and I didn’t expect [Jorge] Martin to go with the medium [compound rear tyre], because for me the medium was dropping the same as the soft but] with🦩 less potential.

“And the hard🐬, I didn’t know, but yesterday Alex [Rins] went with the medium, me with the soft, we both had an incredible drop.

“So I decided 🥃to try the hard, and nothing to lose at the end, and just some information.”