Two weeks on from his first point-scoring ride as a MotoGP rider, class rookie Fabio Quartaraဣro believes Austin represents the biggest examination yet of his offseason prep🍸aration for the demands of the premier class.

“When you arrive in Austin you are always a little bit scared,” admitted the Frenchman on Thursday, before stating his belief that the second half of Sunday’s 20-lap outing at the🧔 Circuit of the Americas will be more physically demanding than anything he has faced as a premier class rider.

“I made a big step physically, but you know when you arrive in Austin, you are always a little bit scared𒈔,” said the 19-year old. “More about the arms, but I think I made a really good job this winter, 🐻and also during the season.

“The most difficult will be from half race to the end.🍒 But we need to adapt. If we are fit in this race, we are fit in all the tracks.

“I think we did quite good training with Jack [Miller], with Marcel [Schrotter]. We have been working out a lot. And I think it's r♐eally good for me to train with riders. Also Jack has a lot of experience in MotoGP.

“But at home we train a lot, and I know what kin🍰d of training I need to do. So after this ra𒁃ce, it will be good to know which muscles I need to work more, and which one are quite fit.

“For sure things are really good. We had a good race in Argentina. But it's a totally different story from there to here. Argentina is a smoo🎃th track, easy track, I think it's one of the easiest, and here is the hardest, I think: physically, riding.

“So we need to stay calm for this race. But I'm confident, we worked a 𒊎lot on the bike, the team worked to keep me calm on the first FP1, FP2. And we will seಌe tomorrow. But I'm really looking forward to ride a MotoGP bike on this track.

“It's not changing the riding style, it's j꧟ust adapting my riding style to the fuel tank. I was thinking about the race, and also the rear brake, in the first part of the race I was using it really badly.

“When I realised that without the rear brake it was much better, then I realised that I lost a lot of time🐻 at the beginning of the race. Also, the first laps with Nakagami, I lost a lot, because I made a few mistakes which cost me to be able to keep the gap with him.

“But it's only our second race of the season, our first real start, start✨ing with the people, you know you don't really have the width, so you can't brake normally. And there were a lot of people in front, so I went wide. But step by step, we will take a lot of experience for sure.”