Fabio Quartararo breathes sigh of relief after near-highside “many, many times”

Yamaha riders reflect on Australian MotoGP

Fabio Quartararo
Fabio Quartararo

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo nearly highsided on several occasions in the Australian MotoGP.

The Yamaha ride༺r started from P18 but turned it into a decent P9 finish thanks to his late race pace, but later reജvealed he was fortunate to remain upright.

Quartararo had stormed to 10th after a brilliant first lap although he lo🌠st placeꦚs to Raul Fernandez, Johann Zarco and Jack Miller.

In the final seven laps, Quartarar♕o overtook the same three riders to claim ninth place, 18.757s from the front.

“It’s a sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhame. In the first laps I felt really bad with the re🔴ar tyre,” he told TNT Sports.

“[I nearly] highsided many, many times.

“We have to undersꦬtand why it takesꦡ so long for us to warm the rear tyre.

“Then, we can b👍e happy with the last 15 laps. We ha💟d quite good pace.

“Hopefully we ജcan find out how to warm up the tyre properly.”

Twice at recent rounds Quartararo has ambled over the finishing line after 🦹running out of fuel but there was luckily no repeat at Phillip Island.

“The fuel was okay! At this track ther🐠e is no issue with fuel. We had enough to finish the race,” he said.

Quartಌararo later added: "I had a really good start, but unfortunately the first part of the race was difficult.

“I had some near highsides, and I couldn't keep up with 𒅌the pace of the front guys.

“The second part of the race was really good, and I can be happy because especially the last ten laps were really nice. I thi🦂nk there are some things we can learn from this race."

'Big step in the right direction'

Yamaha te🐼ammate Alex Rins started from ninth buܫt finished 13th.

"I'm satisfied about wh🍬at we did in today's꧅ race,” Rins said.

“W🌼e gave it our 100%. But what I'm not 100% satisfied about is the result.

“It's tru🐼e that we improved the bike a🐻 little bit by changing some things.

“The gap w🌄as a little bit less compared to the Sprint race, but we need𝔍 to keep working.

“We still have some problems, which the team ha🅷s already identified, but now we need time to solve them.ꦛ"

Team director Massimo Meregalli added: "Th𝓡is was a difficult race weekend for us, but today we ended it in a better way than we started it.

“Though there is still plent🍰y to work on, our riders were more competitive in today's dry and warmer conditions.

“Fabio had an impressive star༺t and end to his race, and it was good to see him fight and overtake.

“Alex had a similar pace to 🍨Fabio, so he too made a step in the right direction today.

“It was just a shame that he was missing something at the end that prohibited him from enga🅘ging in battle.

“We will carefully analyse today's data as we p🐽repare for next week's Thailand GP."

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