Fabio Quartararo finished a frustrating 10th in the Barcelona MotoGP Sprint, but 🦩spent much of the second half of the race battling with several Ducati riders.

Quartararo lost out on the final point on offer o💫n the final lap when he was passed by Brad Binder, but had previously been battling with Marc Marquez, Franco Morbidelli, and Marco Bezzecchi for a po🌺sition inside the top-eight.

“I mean his point will not have changed anything 🌃of this race,” Quartararo said.

“But,🎶 we had the🍰 pace to be faster, but we were clearly blocked, so unfortunately I could not overtake.

“But I think the potential was quite good, but missing a lot oℱf power and a lot of grip to be able t🍎o fight with them.”

Quartararo at least felt that ಞhis performance was better than the📖 Catalan Grand Prix held at the same circuit in May.

“It was a bit better, it was nice to see Marꦚc [Marquez] quite close to me, even if he had an issue in the third 💟corner,” Quartararo said.

“We are not able to try any 𒆙overtake, the overtake I did on [Marco] Bezzecchi is not a typical overtake: you just risk everything, I don’t know if I🌱’m going to touch him or not, so it’s not a pure overtake.

“So, it’s difficult because our speed is so low, and the grip is even worse. We are working on it, but♈ this trac😼k is demanding on these two aspects.”

Rins: “We were not able to find the right setup for me”

Alex Rins’ race was ruined somewhat at the start when h♋e dropped to last place having been caught up in the aftermath 𒁏of the “issue” Quartararo mentioned about Marc Marquez in the third turn.

Marquez made contact with Pedro Acosta, which ripped the front fairing off Acosta’s bike and forced him to retire, while Rins spent time avoiding the debr🤡is and dropped to last.

“I did two c🙈orners with the fairing of [Pedro] Acosta in front of me, avoiding, and I go back to last position,” Rins said.

“So🌃, starting from that, our race was not bad; I recovered six positions, I 𒁏felt quite strong. But then, when I arrived to [Luca] Marini, my tyres were done.

“I tried to overtake him, did one lap in front of him, but then in turn one I went stꦯra🐷ight, locking the front, so I couldn’t do more.”

𒁃Rins’ issues were much the same as Quartararo’s, mostly a lack of rear grip, but he was able to make a꧟ decent pace despite that.

“Overall, this GP we are stru♛ggling, but I’m finding the way,” he said.

“We are strugglingꦚ on traction, we are struggling on the rear grip, but even like this I’m able to ride in low-1:40s, high-1:39s, so for tomorrow if we have luck and I take a good position on the first lap, I think it can be a good result between P10 and P13, because I’m feeling quite good — where the bike cannot arrive I try to put my maximum.”

Comparing himself to his teammate, Quartararo, Rins said: “Cꦺompared to Fabio [Quartararo], here, it looks not bad. Still, I’m a little bit lo🅺st with my setup.

“When I stop aft⛦er the race, I say the same thing to my engineers, the same as I was saying in Qatar.

“This ye🍌ar, we were not able to find the right s🌳etup for me.

“So, honestly I’m over-riding the bike. I cannot go with the flow. This is negative, because I ask more of th♏e tyres, I make more mistakes.

“When you don’t have the bike in your hands,ꦯ it’s w🌃orse.”