An encouraging Friday at Misano for Yamaha saw Fabio Quartararo do enough to 𒊎enter Q2.

Quartararo was ninth-fastest 𝓡in Fridaꦅy practice ahead of the San Marino MotoGP.

It a rare da🌼y of optimism for the struggling Japanese manufacturer.

“It was a good start to the San Marino race weekend, especially f൲or Fabio,” team boss Massimo Meregalli said.

“He was feeling good right𒉰 from the jump in this morning's FP1. The objective was the top 10 in the Practice, and he pushed hard to make it happen.

“Itꦬ's an encouraging result: being🐓 in Q2 directly can only help him in the remainder of the weekend.

“He tried a neꩵw chassis today, and🥃 so did Alex. Both of them gave positive feedback, so the plan is to keep using it the next two days.

“Alex's lap times improve🎃d compared to the private Misano test. We will analyse the data and tweak the bike's set-up this evening so tomorrow morning in FP2 we can help him make another step.”

Qu☂artararo said: “After this morning, we ဣknew it was going to be tough.

“I was in P5, but we have to take into account that only we and Honda tested here befo༺re.

“I expected to have a tough afternꦅoon, b🔯ut in the end we are inside the top 10. That was our goal, so I'm pretty happy.

“I think that the new chassis that we tried today was a bit better. 🌊Hopefully we can find a bit more grip tomorrow, trying some different🍌 things.”

Alex Rins, 17th on Friday, said: “We tried a new ꧅chas🥃sis, and it works quite well.

“It's dif🐽ficult to make a comparison because the grip level is higher now here, but today I rode one sec𒆙ond faster than I did during the test.

“So, for sure, the bike was a litt෴le🌼 bit better today. Or maybe my head was in test mode back then, so I wasn't pushing like I do during a GP weekend.

“Either way, this chassis was a little bit better, but we're still struggling a bit. We mixed the setting we used during the test ဣwith the setting we used in A🍨ragon, but it didn't work as I hoped.

“ꦜIt wasn't that bad, bu꧑t there's still a big margin to improve.”

Yamaha have been buoyed by 🤪the acquisition of the Pramac satellite team, who will join i🅘n 2025.

The addition of Miguel Oliveira (with Jack Miller expected to follow) will provide them with two experienced riders whose data should enable Y🌜a🧜maha to hasten their development.