Fabio♐ Quartararo ended Friday at the MotoGP Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona in 14th, having struggled to find grip at a cওold Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Compared to the Catalan Grand Pr﷽ix in May, where track temperatures were in the 40C-range during the afternoon sessions, Practice for the Solidarity Grand Prix had a track temperatu📖re of only 20C.

Typically, lower temperatures mean better grip from the track surface, and therefo🐠re better lap times.

However, that wasn’t the case on Friday in Barcelona, where track grip seemed to have deteriorated compared to the Catalan Grand Prix and to the detriment of Yamaha, with Fabi๊o Quartararo lamenting a lack of traction from his YZR-M1.

“I think today was really complicated, as expected,” Quartararo sa𓃲iܫd.

“It was really complicated to make a lap time. The feeling was good but just without any traction and in this track especially the traction is the most imp🐼ortant.

“We don’t have it, so it will be difficult to go into Q2 and ౠit will be difficult to make a great race here.”

Quartararo was still using the same, new electronics package that Yamaha took to Sepang two weeks ago and which seemed to offer positive benefits, but in Barcelona the grip iꦬs so low that those benefits no longer equalled improved performance.

“The problem is the grip is that꧂ low that it doesn’t re💛ally make a difference,” Quartararo said.

“The spin is maybe a little bit moreꦆ low, that is quite good also for the tyre life, but in terms of performance it’s exa🍃ctly the same [as the old electronics].”

The track seemed to offer less lap time in the cooler November temperatures of this weekend’s Solidarity Grand Prix than it did in May’s warm𒐪er Catalan Grand Prix.

Quartararo, though, 🉐🍌didn’t think the differential was down to the temperature.

“I don’t think it’s really r🀅elated to the temp🍌erature, because this afternoon the temperature was quite nice,” he said.

“But it’s true that the grip was less 🧔than in May, that was pretty strange. But usually from Friday to Saturday the track improves quite a lot.”

As a result of that improvement, Quartararo expects the front runners to improve their speed in qualifying on༺ Saturday morning, even if times better than those of the Q2 session at the Catalan Grand Prix are unlikely.

“I think that tomorrow the lap time will be faster,” he said. “I don’t think they will make the same lap time as Q2 from May. But of course they will be reall💝y close.”