Japanese manufacturers Yamaha and Honda have slipped badly behind thei😼r European counterpa🍌rts, despite boasting 2019 champion Marquez and 2021 champion Quartararo.

At the Sachsenring, so often a favourite of Marquez’s, he 🃏fell five times before the grand prix and withdrew just hours before, one of his bleakest moments in MotoGP.

"For me, a race that had a great impact on me was the Sachsenring✅, especially the Sprint Race,” ꩵQuartararo said to .

“I take the example of Marc becaus🤪e for me he is the reference of motorcycling.

"At Sachsenring he w♔on all the races that he has [entered], and this year in the Sprint he is 𝄹ninth and tenth. 

“I don't think🤪 he has forgo🔯tten to ride in one year.

“You s💦ee that many times the bike is much more important than the rider.”

Quartararo compওared the Yamaha to the Honda: "We have some worse points and som💧e better points.

"How our bike reacts is ✅not as💝 aggressive as the Honda. 

“Each one has its points, but right now the🔴re are many things that make it difficult for us to fight for the front positions."

Quartararo only missed out on a second consecutive MotoGP title at the final🍌 round of 2022, but realistically Yamaha’s decline behind the Ducati started a year ago.

The gap has dramatically widened this year.

"I have not reacted quickly enough 🦩to change as a rider,” Quarta🦋raro said. 

“The bike we have right now is not to win, but I mentally wanted to wi☂n.

"In thꦏe end, when you are already at 100%, you want to giveꦍ more.

“This first par🌊t [of the season] I should have learned a lot moreౠ than I have learned, which has been nothing.

"I should have learned from my mistakes, from the experience that we have to gain in difficult mom🧜ents. 

“I want to change this second part, I want to give my 100% without really looking at the ෴result.”

Quartararo has already ins💧isted that the Misano test, where Yamaha can debut their 2024 plans, will give him the ဣevidence he needs to plot his long-term future.