Fabio Quartararo finished a frustrat༺ing 10th in the Barcelona MotoGP Sprint, but spent much of the second half of the race♎ battling with several Ducati riders.

Quartararo lost out on the final point on offer on the f🏅inal lap when he was passed by Brad Binder,🔯 but had previously been battling with Marc Marquez, Franco Morbidelli, and Marco Bezzecchi for a position inside the top-eight.

“I mean his point will not have changed💞 anything of this race,” Quartararo said.

“But, we had the pace to be faster, but 💦we 🌳were clearly blocked, so unfortunately I could not overtake.

“But I think the potential was quite good, but missing a lot of power and a lo🍸t of grip to be able to fight with them.”

Quartararo at least felt that his performance was bet🍌ter than the Catalan Grand Prix held at the same circuit in May.

“It was a bit better, it was nice to see Marc [Marquez] quite close to me, even if he had an issue in the third🍸 corner,” Quartararo said.

“We are not able to try any overtake, the overtꦐake I did on [Marco] Bezzecchi is not a 🐎typical overtake: you just risk everything, I don’t know if I’m going to touch him or not, so it’s not a pure overtake.

“So, it’s difficult because our speed is 🐟so low, and the grip is even worse. We are working on it, but this track is demanding on these two aspects.”

Rins: “We were not able to find the right setup for me”

Alex Rins’ race was ruined somewhat at the start when he dro𝐆pped to last place having been caught up ⛄in the aftermath of the “issue” Quartararo mentioned about Marc Marquez in the third turn.

Marquez made contact with Pedro Acosta, which🌺 ripped the front fairing off Acosta’s bike and forced him to retire, while Rins spent time avoiding the debris and dropped to last.

“I did two🅰 corners w𒁃ith the fairing of [Pedro] Acosta in front of me, avoiding, and I go back to last position,” Rins said.

“So, starting from that, our race was not bad; I recovered six positions, I felt quite strong. But then, when I arrived 𒀰to [Luca] Marini, my tyres were done.

“I tri🗹ed to overtake him, did one lap in front of him, but then in turn one I went straight, locking the front, so I couldn’t do more.”

Ri🐻ns’ issues were much the same as Quartararo’s, mostly a lack of rear grip, but he was able to make a decent pace despite that.

“Overall,🌱 this GP we are struggling, but I’m finding the way,” he sai🐲d.

“We are struggling on traction, we are str𒁃uggling on the rear grip, but even like this I’m able to ride in low-1:40s, high-1:39s, so for tomorrow if we have luck and I take a good posi💝tion on the first lap, I think it can be a good result between P10 and P13, because I’m feeling quite good — where the bike cannot arrive I try to put my maximum.”

Comparing himself t💫o his teammate, Quartararo, Rins said: “Compared to Fabio [Quartararo], here, it looks not bad. Still, I’m a little bit lost with my setup.

“When I stop after the race, I say the same thing to my engineers, 🍎the same as I was saying in Qatar.

“🉐This year, we were not able to find the right setup for me.

“So, honestly I’m over-riding the bike. I c🤪annot go with the flow. This is negative, because I ask more 💝of the tyres, I make more mistakes.

“When you don’t have the bike in y♚our🍃 hands, it’s worse.”