A Qatar sto꧒rm denied Valentino Rossi of the chance to complete a fifth and final day of MotoGP pre-se🍌ason testing with his new Petronas Yamaha team.

But the Italian feels his work 𝄹was already '85%' done and heads into the March 26-28 opening race we🌱ekend buoyed by clear progress during the previous two days at Losail.

"♋We wasted one day but fortunately yesterday we did all the important work," said Rossi, who was eleventh and +0.810s from Ducati's Jack Miller on the combined test timesheet.

"It's a shame because we have some other things to try, including a long run for a race simulation. But for the rest the balance is quite positive because espec൲ially in the last two days we improved a lot t🌊he bike, the grip, the feeling.

"I can ride in a better way. I was a lot faster than last year🐼 in the time attack and especially the race pace.

"The positive is that Yamaha worked in a clever way during the winter and thౠey brought here some good things like the new chassis and aeꦿrodynamics," continued the 42-year-old. "This is very important because for me in the last years we have a lot of problem to improve.

"The second positive thing is the feeling with the new team and with all my staff [at Petronas] is beautiful, the atmosphere i൩s good. So these ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtwo things make me happy.

"The problem is that also a lot of different riders and different bikes that are very fast and faster than last year but ⛦we 🍸try to be there.

"To understand the level we need to wait for the first race bec♛ause when you are all together you have a lot of other factors. But I leave Qatar with good feelings."

Rossi, who was forced to miss two races las꧒t season due to a Covid diagnosis, also confirmed he was♍ among those in the MotoGP paddock to have accepted the Qatar Government's offer of a vaccine.

"Yes, we did the vaccine this morning and I'm very happy because it's a g🦄reat step for our normal life during the season, without having the nightmare to see somebody that who has covid and miss 2-3 races like happened to me last year," Rossi said

"I t𒅌hink that Carmelo with Dorna together with Qatar they give to us a big help and I'm very happy."

Rossi team-mate Franco Morbidelli, riding the A-Spec M1, was fourth on the combined timeshe꧋ets.