After an unrepresentative 17t🦩h in Friday practice, V𒈔alentino Rossi duly enjoyed a better day two at the German MotoGP.

On Friday, the Italian laid the blame squarely on the same electronic-related accele🌳ration problems he has highlighted since August 2017, lamenting that they ar🐓e still waiting for u🎶pgrades from Yamaha.

Those are not expected until the post-race test at Brno in🤪 August, but set-up work on the balance of the M1 helped hi✨s situation on Saturday.

Rossi jumped to fourth (+0.281s) with new medium front-soft rear tyres in FP3. That secured direct access to Qualifying 2, where he claimed sixth on the grid (+0.262s) during anothe🐠r ultra-tight sess𒅌ion. However, Rossi's pace on used tyres remains a question mark.

"Today was better for us compared to ye♋sterday, because we worked on the balance of the bike, we improved, and also yesterday we tried something to improve the accel🃏eration, but it didn't work," Rossi said.

"So today, I was a bit more competitive already💧 from this morning, my pace is not too bad, also if it's not the best for sure," added The Doctor who was ninth quickest (+0.364s) when working on rac🐟e pace in FP4. 

"But starting from𓃲 the second row is very important for the race, because for sure the start and the first lap will be very v🤡ery important. 

"And also, it will be very important to ma🍃ke the right tyre choice,ꦰ because it's still very open. We still don't understand which rear tyre is the best. 

"So we have to work to check the data tomorrow morning, and I think the tyre choice will be crucial, because I think the second half of the race will be diffic😼ult for everybody. 

"The choice is between soft and medium, because the hard has a different casing. It's a safe tyre, but the performance is drastꩲically less. It's one second per lap slower. It's a little bit like Moto2. 

"So if the choice is open, nobody will choose the hard, but we still don't unde൩rstand if the soft or the medium [rear] is better for us."

Rossi also cited tyres as the reason 🦄for the lack of MotoGP falls at the fearsome Turn 11 corner so far this year.

"Because we have the right tyre," he said. "We𒁃 need a very very soft tyre on the right, and with Bridgestone was always very critical, but also with Michelin, but this year they made another big step on the right, and now we have better grip, so it's less dangerous."

Rossi is currently second in the world championship but 41-points from Marc Marquez, who will start the race on pole positꦕion.

Team-mate Maverick Vinales will al𒊎so staജrt on row two, in fourth place.