While Andrea Dovizioso 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:feels a lack of grip is the bike’s major han🌱dicap, Quartara🍌ro remains adamant that power is his biggest problem.

“No, I don’t agree, because I think if you ask every rider🐼 what he needs to be faster it’s grip! Because with more grip it’s clear you go faster,” Quartararo said. “Bu♛t for me, with the way of riding the Yamaha, I think I have quite a lot of experience with that bike, it’s not grip; it’s power.

“It’s power clearly anꦍd if you ask me 20🌠 times I will answer this way, because in Austin we lost half-a-second over the two straights. If you take out that half-second we would fight for the victory. And it was the same in Argentina.

“Some tracks𝕴 even in second or third gear I ask for more power and we don’t have [any more], so this is also kind of acceleration but it al꧑l comes from the power. So for me it’s power that we miss… Pure power of the engine and also top end.

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“Of course we miss a lot of rear grip in the wet, that’s for sure. But in the dry it’s not so bad and if you check our riding style it’s much more like - I exaggerate - Moto3 style. Much more round lines. When you see all the other bikes they are doing much more a like a V in the turns 🔯and I think this is the biggest difference between our bike and the other bikes.

“[It feels like] it’s no grip because they turn, open the th🍬rottle, and the bike is straight. But when we are behind them we open with a lot of lean angle. And of course when you are on lean angle you spin and have no grip.

“But all the Yamaha riders ask for power. It’s true that D🥃ovi also asks for grip, but for me the main problem is power. For me in the race what is missing is the opportunities to overake.

“What I agree [with Dovi about] is that [Yamaha] needs to be ꦡmuch more aggressive, they need to make bigger changes. But it’s not about the r𝔍ear grip. It’s about the power.”

Top speed i♔s something the Frenchman has been persistently calling for since last season, but despite the end of a two-year technical freeze the latest M1’s engine performance ꦅlooks to have barely changed over the 2020/2021 design.

“I think it’s been a problem for many year🍰s for Yamaha but they have to find it,” said Quartararo, who was over 13km/h slower than the Ducati of Enea Bastianini through the COTA speed trap with only team-mate Franco Morbidelli slower in a straight line.

Unfortunately for Quartararo and Yamaha, the in-season freeze on engine design means ext🍸racting more power from the 2022 M1 will be exceptionally difficult, although further improvements in areas such as ride-height devices and aerodynamics could help mitigate the issue.

Dovizioso: I agree with Fabio, but…

While Quartararꦍo was 18th and then 13th during t🍎he pair of wet practice sessions in Portimao, Dovizioso turned heads with third in the afternoon.

However, the RNF Yamaha rider played down the result, saying third position ♎;was “not the reality, 🐬because most of the riders started with a used tyre from the morning and all the Yamahas started with a new one”, before again explaining why he feels rear grip is the key issue handicapping the M1.

“Fabio in this moment is the only rider who is able to ꦆbe fast with Yamaha with no grip on the rear,” Dovizioso said.

“So it's normal [Quartararo says power is more important], because if you give him a bit more ꧑power, he ca𒈔n be a bit faster on the straight, because in the corners he is already so fast.

"So I agree with h൲im, but his way to ride, in my opinion, is a bit unique.

“That's why I'm explaining and I'm pushing a lot for the grip, because in my opinion, 90% of the ridersꦡ with Yamꦉaha need more grip, and this is the biggest limit.

“It’s the strange thing of this bike, b꧅ecause how much we lose on the grip is huge. I can say thဣat because in the last two years I rode two different bikes [Ducati and Aprilia]. That's why I'm pushing for that.

“So Fabio is not saying wrong things, just he doesn't know about the grip, because 𝔍he hasn't tried [other bikes]. But this is normal. If I were him, I would like more power, because he can be just a bit faster with more power.”

🥂Quartararo is currently fifth in the world championship with one podium. The next best Yamaha rider, team-mate Franco Morbidelli, is 15th.