Updated with further quotes from Valentino Rossi.

Valentino Rossi will start his home Italian MotoGP from just tenth on the grid after a 'big mistake' in terms of t🌊yre choice for hisꦯ Movistar Yamaha.

Holding fifth and "with a margin to improve" when he pitted for a fresh rear tyre, Rossi and his team also opted to change to a softer🎀 front tyre for the final run. It was a decision he soon came to regret.

"We made a big mistake in the qual🍨ifying, together with Bridgestone we decided to change th♍e front tyre at the same time as the second rear," Rossi explained.

"It was the wroꦿng decision, I felt really bad with the softer front and I was unable to improve my lap time. It's a great shame, because I had a gওood potential and could have started on the front, my pace is good and I feel good with the bike, but it's like this.

"To🅠morrow from the fourth row everything will be harder and more difficult. But we ha♑ve good pace, we need to fix some small problems and try to make the maximum.

"I want to try and make a good race because it's my 300th Grand Prix and also we are in Mugello! I'm quite desperate for the tenth position but I ⛎know nothing is lost. It will be hard but we can do a good race.

"If you had to pick one track to start from the fourth row, Mugello is good because there are a lot of p⛄laces to overtake. We will try to𒆙 make a good warm-up, a good start and do the first laps at the maximum then see what happens."

Prior to qualifying,🎐 Rossi had been fourth fastest and just 0.186s from the top in final practice.

"I had a good pace in practice, only losing a little in the final sector. The problem is that everybody hꦉas a good pace - Marquez, Pedrosa, Jorge and also the Ducatis of Dovizioso and Iannone.

"For this reason it is more important to start in front. Anyway I willꦓ try. I am compe🐬titive and fast."

Honda's unbeaten reigning champion Marc Marquez, Ducati's Andrea Iannone and Rossi's team-mate Jorge Lorenzo will form 😼the𝔍 front row of Sunday's grid.

Rossi fell on the first lap of last year's race after tangling with Alvaro Bautist🃏a.