After his second MotoGP weekend as a factory Yamaha rider Alex Rins concluded that he needs a moꦚr🔯e personalised set-up for his M1.

The formerܫ Suzuki and LCR Honda race winner has kicked off his Yamaha career with 16th and 10th place finishes, respectively, in the Qatar and Portuguese♐ GPs.

Portimao was thus Rin✃s’ first world championship points on the M1.

But after crossing the line 30-seconds from race winner Jorge Martin and ten-seconds behin☂d team-mate Fabio Quartararo, Rins admitted he was expecting much ཧmore.

“These two races - Qatar, Portimao - have not gone꧒ the way that I was expecting,” Rins 𒐪said.

“We need to work a little bit more on our own. I mean, [until now] mor🥀e or less we did small changes on the bike, but focusing on the set-up that Fabio is using.

“After this race, I rea🐈lised that I need to do somethi꧃ng different on the bike, because [in Portimao] I had similar problems as the race in Qatar.

“I was struggling a lot with the front after releasing the brakes and going on the throttle. I’m struggling to turn. I can𝔉not do [lean] angle.”

Th🦂e six-time MotoGP race winner added: “In the middle of the race, I tried to change my riding style on the bike. To see if I was able to load the front more. But it was not enough. So it looks like we need more weight on the front to make the bike turn.”

Rins had hoped to prioritise set-up work during Yamaha’s private pos𝓀t-race Portimao test, subsequently rained off.

“Maybe we need to focus on the setup more than the new parts, because I'm not quite ha༺ppy,” he had said. “It's not the team's fault, it's not the bike fault. It's just our second race.

“We need to get useﷺd to the bike. We need to understaꦆnd. But we have work to do.”

Round three of the seꦍason takes place at COTA, the sce🍒ne of Rins’ shock LCR Honda victory a year ago.