Monster Yamaha riders 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins were left 17th and 18th in Friday practice for the Americas MotoGP at COTA, sending them both into Saturday’s Q𒐪ualifying 1 ses🀅sion.

The pair were separated by just 0.036s but 1.4s behind 𝔉fastest man Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) and half-a-second from the final top ten place for direct Q2 access.

“It was more difficult than we expected,” confessed Quartararo, who 🐬was riding for the first time since his new Yamaha contract was announced.

“We tried many things to try to find more turning compared to this morni♛ng, but we didn't r✨eally find it. We expected the times to be a little bit better and not this far from the top. But let's see tomorrow.

“Hopefully we can find smal♌l things to improve the feeling. The top speed is ♛a positive point.

“We were able to play a little bit mo🔯re with the power today, especially in slow corners. We have a little bit more aero, but we need to im൩prove the turning.

“I feel like we soon will make the st🗹ep𒁃 that we want.”

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Defending🌞 COTA winner Rins was riding the M1 for the first time in Te🧸xas.

“We are working quite hard. We started FP1 and it was bit difficult to find the best way to be fast. I📖'm struggling on the change of direction,” he explained. “This is not new, but this time I also found it quite difficult to stop the bike on hard braking. But we are working to find a solution, for sure.

“Let's see. Today was a good day in terms of laps and in terms of trying different things on the bike. So,💛 right now we need to analyse, and we need to select the best package for the qualy and the Sprint tomorrow.”

Team 🍰director Massimo Meregꦅalli admitted the Yamaha riders were further behind than hoped.

“We are further behind here at COTA than we had hoped. Our goal was, as always, to be inside the top 10 to have the best chances for qualifying to✱morrow, but we are about a secon🌱d off the mark where we want to be,” Meregalli said.

“Consequently, bo🎐th Fabio and Álex have to take part in Q1 tomorrow. We need to work hard to find a time🌞 improvement and get ready for qualifying and the Sprint.”

Both Quartararo and Rins went directly through to Qualifying 2 at the prev🍃ious Portimao round, while the Frenchman finished on the podium with third place at COTA last year.

But Yamaha wasn’t the only manufacturer to struggle on day one.&𓆏⭕nbsp;

Both factory KTMs and all fou🌠r Hondas also missed the top ten cut, creating a hotly contested Qualifying 1 line-up, where only the top two riders will progress to the pole position shootout.