Fabio Quartararo began the A🌜ragon doub👍le-header with a ten-point MotoGP World Championship lead over Joan Mir but left with a 14-point deficit to the Suzuki rider.

Most perplexing for the Frenchman was that he again sไtruggled to make a step forward during the second weekend at the same track.

Quartararo had the speed to be on pole position for the opening Aragon round, only to plummet to 18th in the race due to soౠaring front tyre pressure, but qualified just sixth for the follow-up event and fin꧅ished the race in eighth.

Meanwhile, Petronas Yamaha team-mate Franco Morbidelli won Sunday's 💫race, using the saﷺme medium-medium tyre combination as Quartararo.

"Franco won and made an amazing race with the medium/medium. So the tyre choice was good," Quartararo said. "And the tyre pressure loꦍoks like it was okay.

"The problem was I wanted to do exactly what I did in FP4✨, make '48.4, '48.5, but I was losing the grip so aggressively.

"This is why I'm not r🎀eally happy, because in the warm-up I was so happy about the time that we did.

"I finished with 25 laps on the tyre, doing '49.5, '49.4. So I was quite con🎃fident, but the feeling I had in the race was totally different. No feeling, no grip, no traction. I have no idea why𓆉, but it is strange."

All of which meant Morbidelli, on the A-spe❀c r🧸ather than Factory-spec bike, crossed the finish line a massive 14.7s ahead of Quartararo.

"We have more or less the same bike, with the same tyre compounds, so for sure it's about the riding style but [Morbidelli] did really great. We will need to see wh🐲y we went that slow in the race," Quartararo sa𒀰id.

Quartararo wasn't the only M1 rider to struggle more for speed during the second weekend, with Monster Yamaha's Maverick Vinales - w🌳ho fought for a podium at the fir🍬st race - finishing just ahead of the #20 on Sunday.

"Even in the first week Franco was so consistent, and then he made an improvement. But we made [no] improvement from the first week to the second, and we had no c♎onsistency," Quartararo said.

"Also Maverick, the first week he was so fast. He was the man to beat, but finally he did fourth🧸 place and now he finished just a half-a-second in front of me.

"So it’s difficult to understand because,ꦿ💃 apart from Franco that actually improved a lot, for us whenever there is a double race we [didn't]."

Quartararo, of course, took victory in 𝔉🔯both of the season-opening Jerez races, but his winning time was almost identical.

"It looks like in the double races we struggle more because everybody makes a big step and we 𓄧are just stuck. We are 🔯just not doing a step forward," Quartararo explained.

"Looks like everybody can make mor🌠e changes and improve but usually when we arrive, apart from here, from 🉐FP1, FP2 the bike is already done.

"Like in Barcelona, FP1 was almos𝐆tꦚ already the pace that we had for the race. So this is why we can’t really make step forward. Don’t know exactly why.

"I'm happy toꦜ leave Aragon because it was two weeks that we struggled every day."

With the cham♋pionship battle nearing its climax, the next venue will als꧑o be a double-header, at Valencia, which will begin with Mir, Quartararo, Vinales and Morbidelli all covered by 25 points.

"The positive things is that 🎃we didn't make the same result [18th⭕] as last week, or we would be 40 points behind. Okay, [14 points] is a lot, but there are still three races to go," he said.

"Now we have double race in Valencia and I’m sure Valencia isও a better track for us, with less consumption on the tyre. Because it looks like when we have a lot of consumption, I’m strug🍨gling more than the others with the drop.

"So I think that we will be fast and consistent, nꦉot like 🦂here.

"Then it's Portimaꦚo, which in the past was my favourite track. So I’m really looking forward to seeing the feeling I have with the MotoGP bike."

Team principal Razlan Razali said: "We need to analyse Fabio’s race and see how we can improve, but other riders also had the same problems that we did. We need to all 💙sit down and see how we can make it better."