168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo thinks his Yam🍎aha is at its wor🐠st-ever compared to rivals.

The 2021 champion was 11th in the 2024 season-opening Qatar MotoGP, with teammate Alex Rins 16th.

It was a dramatic reality check after an optimistic winter where Yamaha added key engineering recru💟its from Ducati, and were given developmental benefits through the new concessions rule.

ꦜBut asked if his Yamaha is now the worst he has ever experienced, Quartararo was quoted by : "Compared to how the level is right now, I would say ye🍸s.

"We improved, so this is something difficu🐻lt to say.

“But the level of our bike compared to the others, it's true that we are fur🍸ther than ever.

"We are further than last year. We have improved a little bit but they a🌜re even better and faster than last year.

"So, the g🥀ap between all the European manufacturers and us is even bigger – even to Honda it felt that today we were missing something, and they are also struggling a lot. But I felt we were even worse today."

Quartararo bleakly admitted he feels like he’s racin♓g in a "championship of the others” featuring only the six Yamaha and Honda riders.

Concerningly in Qatar, the Yamaha a꧃ppeared to have lost speed through long corners - which was a strength, last season.

“As soon as there are long corners with a lot of acceleraꦕtion, which was our strong point in 2021 where I pulled away from the Ducatis in the triple rightℱ, it is now our weak point,” he described.

"Soꦓ, that's why we aꦯre questioning ourselves as to why we are slow in these types of corners."

The bigger pi💮cture for Quartararo is that he is among many riders whose contract will expire at the end of this season.

Despite an entire season of woe (2023 was the first season in 20 years without a si🐠ngle Yamaha MotoGP race win) Quartararo retains a strong reputation.

Yamaha are at serious risk of losing their star ⛎rider if a more com♑petitive manufacturer can offer him a seat for 2025.

But the concessions we𓂃re never going to be a quick-fix, so the Japanese manu💙facturer will hope that their fortunes steadily increase as the 2024 season goes on.

The second round is next weekend in Portimao.