An encouraging෴ Friday at Misano for Yamaha saw Fabio Quartararo ♔do enough to enter Q2.

Quartararo was ninth-fastest in Friday practice ahead of the S🦂an Marino MotoGP.

It a rare day of o🃏ptimism for🐠 the struggling Japanese manufacturer.

“It was a good start to the San Marꦛino race weekend, especially for Fa൲bio,” team boss Massimo Meregalli said.

“He was feeling good right from the jump in this morning's FP1. The objective was the top 10 in the Practice, and he pushed hard to make it hap🐎pen.

“It's an encouraging resultꦐ: being ꧙in Q2 directly can only help him in the remainder of the weekend.

“He tried a new chassis today, and so did Alex. Both of them gave positive feedback, so the plan is to🍬 keep using it the next two days.

“Alex's lap times improved compared to the priva🧸te Misano test. We will analyse the data and tweak the bike's set-up this evening so tomorrow morning in FP2 we can help him make another step.”

Quartararo said: “After this morning, we knew it was going to be tou🅠gh.

“I was in P5, but we have to take into account that only we ꩲand Ho꧃nda tested here before.

“I expected to have a tough afternoon,💛 but in the end we are inside the top 10. That was our goal, so I'm pretty happy.

“I think that the new chassis that we tried today was a bit better.𝓡 Hopefully we can find a bit more grip tomorrow, tryiꦐng some different things.”

Alex Rins, 17th on Friday, said: “We tried a new chassis, a📖nd it works quite well.

“It's dif🐻ficult to make a comparison because the grip level is higher now here, but today I rode one second faster than I did during the test.

“So, for sure, the 🔯bike was a little bit better today. Or maybe my head was in test mode back then, so I wasn't pushing like I do during a GP weekend.

“Either way, this chassis was a little bit better, but we're still struggling a bit. We mixed the setting we used during the test with the setting we used in Aragon, but i𝓡t didn't work as I hoped.

“It🅰 wasn't that bad, but there's sti🐼ll a big margin to improve.”

Yamaha h💃ave been buoyed by the acquisition of the Pramac satellite team, who will join in 2025.

The addition of Miguel Oliveira (with Jack M๊iller expected to follow) will provide them with two experienced riders whose data should enable Yamaha to hasten their development.