“I was a little bit aggressive, maybe too much, with what I said,” commented the🍸 Frenchman a🌳t the Red Bull Ring on Thursday.

The 2021 world champion, who also fought Francesco Bagnaia for last year’s title until the final round, arrives in Austria just eleventh in 🎉the current standings with one Sunday pod𝔉ium.

“The first part of the 🐻season, I was thinking a little bit too much about the position I wanted. Always trying to reach the win, the podium, the top five. And I was never happy with not reaching my goal,” Quartararo reflected.

But resetting his expectations, which Marc Marquez als🍒o has to do at Honda, has not been easy.

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“It's difficult because I came from fighting for the championship the last two years and now fighting for top 10s,” Quartararo ad♔mitted.

“The first ten races, my head was furious, bꦇecause I know my potential. I know what I can do. But we have some difficulties and to realise now that 'OK, we have to forget about❀ this [top] positions', it hurts.

“But I think that right now we have to take the experiencꦗe. We have to give ourꦺ 100% whatever the position is. And I think that Silverstone was already a small step forward, but I want to totally change my approach during the next ten races.

“Because I think that giving our 100% is the most important, myself and the team, and [whatever] position that will comꦓe. If I feel we give our best, I will be happy with that.”

Quartararo described the change of approach as similar to his debut MotoGP season, at Petronas SRT, in 20൲19.

“I want to take it like if it was my first year in MotoGP. Giving my 100🍨%, the team give their 100% and we will set the goals in terms of how was our pace and qualifying. And then we will be happy if we give our 100%,” he explained.

"Then for the future,🎃 my goal is⛦ to be back with Yamaha like two years ago, fighting for victories and podiums. I want that.

"Of course, the Misano test will ܫbe super important, but then it will be 5 months also from September until February [Sepang test].

Quartararo: Being back on top with Yamaha 'the best dream right now'

“My personal goal is to be world champion again and, of course, if it's with Yamaha I would prefer, becಌause coming🌠 from a tough year, it would be great to bounce back.

“But if 🦋not I will have to find myself another solution. But like I said, I think working with Yamaha super hard anꦡd being back [on top] with them would be the best dream right now.”

In terms of what he needs from the 2024 bike, and why the Yamaha is sometimes slower than last 🐼season, the 24-year-old pinpointed grip and engine performance.

"We are str꧅uggling so much when the grip is a little bit lower,꧂" he said.

"Because first of all, we need some drive to ta𝔉ke the best acceleration possible, but then also for our power [output] if we exit slower we will arrive slower to the next corner.

"So the grip for us is important in two ways; in how we make the lap time, but also in terms of acceleration and top speed whe🃏re we are a little bit more weak. So ﷺit's both things that are difficult."

Q🅘uartararo also needs a bike he can race head-to-head against the V4s with.

"I 🅺think in all the races I've won, I never won a battle in the last lap. I win by 1-2-3 or 5 seconds. So we have to have a bike also thinking sometimes your pace can be a little bit slower, but you have ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmore chances to overtake," he said.

"At the end, you can make pole position, or be fast in every single session, but when they give out points is in the race. So we have to make a ജbike fast also for the r꧂ace."

Quartararo also brushed off a question about being a potential target fo꧋r Honda in 2025.

“It's still long until ’25. I didn't talk. We haveꩲ a lღot of work to do before having a talk with anyone,” he said.