Having suffered ‘severe’ tyre degradation during Saturday's 11-lap Qatar MotoGP Sprint, Monster Yamaha riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins are in search🤪 of a last-minute solution for𒐪 tonight’s full length grand prix.

Starting 16th, Quartararo made good early progress to t♛welfth and later put a pass on LCR Honda’s Jꦬohann Zarco to regain his status as the top rider on a Japanese machine.

But the final laps were a struggle and, aft𝓰er briefly taking eleventh, he was ♊passed by Marco Bezzecchi.

“It was tough.🗹 The drop of the tyre was quite big, bigger than we expected. Becau❀se of this, the final 3–4 laps were more about tyre conservation,” Quartararo explained.

“Tomorrow, we'll have double the number of laps, so we are going to be working on that and try to understand why the ꧋tyre drop is so much bigger than last year. We have a lot o💝f time tonight to find a solution.”

New team-mate Rins also made some early passes to climb from 20th to 17th, then hel𝓰d 16th in the middle st🥃ages before he also began to fade.

The former Suzuki and Honda race winner finished the Sprin🎉t in 17th, just 🎶under three-seconds from this team-mate and 15.629s behind Pramac Ducati race winner Jorge Martin.

“It was a bit hard,” Rins confessed. “We did expect a hard Sprint, but it was a little bit harder than I expected b🍃ecause I couldn't ride my own pace.

“I was trying to manage the rear tyre as much as possible, b♕ut I was struggling a lot on the last 5 laps. So, for sure we will need to take more care with the rear tyre tomorrow.

“But I di💜d some laps behind competitors and gathered information. So, let's try to improve our bike a little bit for tomorrow, espec💝ially in the fast corners. Let's see if we can do this and save the tyres a bit more.”

While rear traction and tyre degradation was known to be the M1’s weakness, team director Massimo Meregalli explained it has been mu🧸ౠch worse than expected during the Lusail race weekend.

“After a difficu💞lt Friday, we already knew this Saturday would be a tough one,” he said.

“We didn't get the qualifying positions we had hoped for, but Fabio and Álex stil🌳l set out in the Sprint with the feeling that they would be able to make up some ground – and they did until the tyres dropped.

“The tyre degradat🐻ion is much more severe this time – and also during the test – than it was when we were racing a𒁃t the Lusail track last November.

“It will be crucial to understand why this is before tomorrow, as the riders will have to complete 22 💝laps in the Race. That is what we will be working on tonight, and we will test our solution during the warm-up.”

Yamaha and Honda, which now benefit from revised technical concession💜s, were the only manufacturers not to score a point in the Sprint with Ducati, KTM and🅷 Aprilia having one rider each on the podium.