Winner of three MotoGP races so far ♊in 2021, Fabio Quartararo finished day-one in Catalunya third fastest behind former team-mate Franco Morbidelli. 

Quartararo was regularly inside the top five during both free practice sessions as he looks to claim a third c🐽areer win around t⭕he Barcelona circuit. 

One of the challenges facing the factory Yamaha riꦿde🎐r is the new turn ten which caught out several riders throughout the day. 

When asked about the new layout introduced this year, Quartararo said: "For me, I think that the layout is much better, but there is a change of tarꩲmac, and the grip is really bad. 

"I have no feeling from the front, a lot of movement. I hope the grip will increase. But the layout is much better and it looks like more the old Catalunya sty♕le."

While the new turn ten provided it’s fair share of challenges, it did 🍃little to dampen the spirits of the championship leader overall.

"Really good day, the pace was great. So happy! We saw riders using the hard tyre and I think it's a 🥀great option for us, we saw in Portimão that it's reall🐼y good," added the 22 year-old.  

"So yeah, I think that we still have a little bit of margin. We check already that there are two corner𝓡s where I lose quite a lot. 

"I thin✱k that working a little bit 🐬on my riding style and electronics we will improve. So it’s great for the pace and also for the time attack."

Mugello caused a lot of issues regarding track limits as Joe Roberts l𝐆ost a podi💙um in Moto2, and while MotoGP riders Miguel Oliveira and Joan Mir kept their podiums, both men encountered track limits problems of their own.

Quartararo believes Catalunya is a difficult venue for imposing track limits, saying: "This track for track limits is really difficult to do. And if you ♏do trꦯack limits at this track, it's more outside the track. 

"Like in Mugello it's at the end of t⛦he kerb, it'sꦉ better to put white paint and there's no track limits. But what happened at Mugello I think is a shame. 

"At the end, they 🗹both kept the same position [Oliveirౠa and Mir] but what happened to Joe [Roberts] that he lost the podium was not so great. 

"Because for me he deservꦑed that podium, and it's not that you go out of the track by 3 millimetre or 3 centimetres that you have to pay. If you go outside of the kerb I think it is correct to be penalized for 1 position, but when it'❀s at the end, I think it's not necessary to do it."