British Grand Prix polesitter Fabio Quartarar🐻o “cannot be optimistic” for Sunday’s MotoGP race at Silverstone as the Yamaha is suffering in the circuit’s low-grip conditions.

The 2021 world champion snatched a third successive pole for the first time since his titl🐻e-winning year on Saturday at Silverstone with a new lap record.

But his time leading the field in the sprint lasted just 14 corners as he was quickly overhauled by the Marquez brothers, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:before fading to seventh by the chequere🤪d🌳 flag.

Sprint winner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez and second-placed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez told the media they expected a strong challenge from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo, which the Yamaha rider agreed with.

However, he said the rear grip on his soft tyre was “critical” and was less than hopeful of a strong grand prix when the r🎐ear choice will be the harder meꩲdium option.

“I expected to beﷺ faster but the grip for us was clearly really critical and I could not be fast,” he told the m🍰edia on Saturday at Silverstone.

“We had a✨ lot of chatter. It was a big gap betwee💙n the feeling of this morning and the feeling this afternoon.

“And this has been a little bit of an usual feeling and we don’t understand why. So we have to understand this, es꧒pecially on the low-grip tracks.”

He added: “Being 🐲honest with y🍸ou, we cannot be really optimistic for tomorrow.

“After the Moto2🗹 race [and the Pirelli rubber it will leave on track], starting with the medium rear, everything will be with less grip and we know that is clearly a situation that is not great. But we will try to enjoy the race and give our best.”

Allꦍ Yamahওa riders battled grip issues in the sprint, which Quartararo says is a combination problem emanating from the bike and the track conditions.

“I think that in the morning if you have one type 𝔍of grip and in thꦍe afternoon it is less, the delta between the other bikes is really big,” he explained.

“If there is a small difference on the grip, for us we feel it like 10 times more than the others and we see tha🐼t the pace we had in the sprint, compared to what we are used to, was super slow.

“We have to understand why when the conditi♕ons drop, we drop and we don’t generate any kind of grip.

“First lap, Alex Marquez overtook me before the finish line. I’m not stupid, I know how to ride, bu🏅t overtaking me in this situation in this position is frustrating.”

Quartararo noted that the chatter problems he had in the sꦓprint led to him “jumping” in some corners.

Yamaha can’t use all power from new engine

Quartararo was still on for a top five result in the latter stages of the sprint having held eventual third-place finisher Fabio Di Giannantonio on the fac🌠tory-spec VR46 Ducati at bay.

But he says this was down to the M1’s new, lighter aero update brought to Silverstone ♔rather than the new engine introduced at Le Mans, which he can’t fully exploit due to the bike’s lack of “mechanical grip”𓆏.

“It’s some💯 positives but if you check my top speed I’m last by far and even if the new engine is better, we have to think that the aero package we have is much lighter than there [Ducati’s] one.

“But they go much faster.

“So, I don’t know exactly how much more horsepower they have, but we see the💫 small difference we made on the aero from the Misano test has been a small advantage.

“So, I cannot imagine with this ♒big aero how much it helps. Yeah, it’s better♛, but we miss a lot.

“We cannot use the [full] power because 🔴clearly🔯 the mechanical grip we have is way too low.

“On one lap it’s ok, but in th🐼e race, where Alex Marquez overtook me, is clearly a place where it’s impossible to overtake.

“Apparently it’s possible, but I’ve never overtaken someone in my whole career like that.𝓰 But we can’t use the power that we have.”