Fabio Quartararo may be doing his best to accept the reality of Yamaha’s current MotoGP situation, but 17th place in Friday practice at Catalunya was still a bitter pill to swallow.
situation, but 17th place in Friday practice at Catalunya was still a bitter pill to swallow.
“But it’s difficult to accept that the last five or six years I've been here, I've always been fighting for victory. Last year I won with six seconds of advantage. And now we are 17th.“So of course it's difficult, but we have to start to accept it, try to find whatever is positive to prepare for next year and that's it.”
“We wanted to try the hard [tyre] but the problem is just we have no traction, especially the Friday here is always difficult, but we see that for the others it's not difficult.“That's why we want to understand why we struggle so much when the conditions are more difficult. “No, not really, because even if the power delivery is more aggressive, when I go from 15% until 40%, I do it quite smooth and the bike is still spinning like hell. This is basically the problem, but the power delivery is not an issue.”
In other words, a clear split between the 16 European bikes in the top 16, and then the six Japanese machines.
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