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 were left 17th and 18th in Friday practice for the Americas MotoGP at COTA, sending them bo𝔍th into Saturday’s Qualifying 1 session.

The pair were separated by just 0.036s but 1.4s behind fastest man Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) and half-a-se🌊cond from the final top ten place foඣr direct Q2 access.

“It was mo💃re difficult than we expected,” c🍷onfessed Quartararo, who was riding for the first time since his new Yamaha contract was announced.

“We tried many things to try to fi🏅nd more turning c🍎ompared to this morning, but we didn't really find it. We expected the times to be a little bit better and not this far from the top. But let's see tomorrow.

“Hopefully we can find smal🗹l things to improve the feeling. The top speed is a posit𒊎ive point.

“We were able to play a little bit more with the power today, especially in slow corners. We have a little bit more aero, but 🌠we need to improve the tur☂ning.

“I feel like 💦we soon will make the step that we want.”

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Defending COTA winner Rins was riding the M1 for the first 🍌time in Texas.

“We are working quite hard. We started FP1 and it was bit difficult to find the best waꦿy to be fast. I'm struggling on the change of direction,” he explained. “This is not new, but this time I also found it quite difficult to stop the bike on hard braking. But we are working to find a solution, for sure.

“Let's see. Today was a good day in terms of laps and in terms of trying different things on the bike. So, right now we need to analyse, and we need to select the best package f🌞or the qualy and the Sprint tomorrow.”

Team director Massimo Meregalli admitted the Yamaha riders꧒ were further behind than hoped.

“We are further behind here at COTA than we had hoped. Our goal was, as always, to be inside the to💯p 10 to have the best chances for qualifying tomorrow, but we are about a second off the mark where we want to be,” Meregalli said.

“Consequently, both Fabio and Álex have to take part in Q1 tomoℱrrow. We need to work hard to find a time improvement and get ready for qualifying and the Sprint.”

Both Quartararo and Rins went directly through to Qualifying 2ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ at the previous Portimao round, while the Frenchman f💖inished on the podium with third place at COTA last year.

But Yamaha wasn’t the only manufactuꩲrer to strug🎃gle on day one. 

Both factory KTMs and all four Hondas also missed the top ten cut, creating a hotly contested Qualifying 1 line-up, where only the top two riders🐷 will progress to the pole position shootout.