Fabio Quartararo’s first assessment of new teammate Alex Rins

LCR Honda rider Rins will move to Yamaha to take the place of Franco Morbidelli in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2024 MotoGP rider line-up, alongside Quartararo.
Rins is the only non-Ducati rider to produce a grand prix victory this seas🌊on so could test 2021 world champion Quartararo in different ways.
“Concerning Al💖ex, it’s a new challenge foꦉr the team and for him, also for me,” Quartararo said.
“He has aꦕ lot of experience in t꧑otally different bikes.”
Rins, represent🐬ing Suzuki, out-scored Quartararo in the 2019 and 2020🎉 seasons.
He will displace Morbidelli wh♑o, in four seasons together, out-per💎formed Quartararo only in 2020.
“I spent almost all🔜 my MotoGP career wit♉h Franco, we have known each other a long time. I wish him the best,” Quartararo said about his outgoing teammate.
Quartararo was restricted to 15th at the British MotoGP - a result so disappointing, he exchan🐲ged a funny to🌜rtoise emoji with the equally-annoyed Marc Marquez via social media afterwards.
“The first part of the season was not what I exp𝓀ected,” he admitted.
“You need to look forward.🌠 🎃The summer break was good for me.
“We feel, and know, that we’re not ready to fight for a podium. We need to do everything great f✅or a great result.”
Yamaha managing di♓re🎀ctor Lin Jarvis added: “The first half has been disappointing, without doubt. Compare last year’s first half to this year, it’s disappointing.
“We expected to do better, we haven’t fulfilled our objectives in the first half. We’ve been struggling෴ frequently, we’ve only made two podiums.
“It’s not up 𓄧to t🍌he standard that we’re accustomed to, and where we want to be. We have a lot to work on, and a lot of things to improve upon in the future.”

Jarvis detailed Yamaha’s issues: “The engine is one of the positive things. In previou𓄧s years we have struggled with top speed and our riders were unable to be competitive in many situations on th🦋e straights.
“Th𒐪e engine has definitely been a positive change. Some people are critical of it but it💜 has solved one problem - it doesn’t give us an advantage, but it has reduced the disadvantage that we had in the past.
“We’ve seen other manufacturers make steps forwards in th🔯e chassis and handling areas, this used to be our forte.
“We no longer have any advantage in the ch🀅𓄧assis area. This makes it difficult to fight.
“We are 𒁏strꦏuggling in qualifying and, in this format, there is no time to extract the best from our package.
“We have only two riders on trac🎉k. We are on the back foot in every race event. 🍌;
“This creates difficulty for our riders who are having t꧅o ride beyond the li🐓mit - we’ve seen crashes, fights, problems.
“It’s difficult if you’re not qualifying well to make good ಌrace results.”

J🐬ames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to f🔥ootball, to F1.