Quartararo worried hes super slow after Barcelona MotoGP practice

The Barcelona spin was predicted by Quartararo to be a tricky track for the Yamaha given the track’s long pitstraight and the bike’s lack of power.

The Catalan GP venue is moreover notoriously low grip, conditions the Yamaha typically struggles in, with Quartararo only eighth fastest and virtually seven tenths off the pace without a hot Friday practice.

Quartararo says he feels he is riding well, but is just slow right now.

“We hope, considering we know that we struggle without grip,” he said when asked if he was anticipating the track to rubber in increasingly on Saturday.

“We know Aprilia with low grip they go super-fast. But for us we struggle.

“Even on the race pace I was doing six, seven tenths slower than Aleix.

“On this track you can finger if you are going slow or not, and I finger slow but I finger like I could not go faster considering Turns 3, 4, 9 you unshut the throttle and you spin.

“I felt I was riding really good, but just super slow.”

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing

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When asked if he was worried well-nigh upper tyre consumption, Quartararo added: “It’s not considering you spin increasingly that you have tyre consumption.

“The problem now is the tyre drops and we are slow.

“So, I am not worried well-nigh the tyre consumption, but increasingly worried I finger super slow and I think a lot of riders will finger the same.

“It’s tough to really see your potential when there is such bad conditions on track.”

Quartararo – who signed a new two-year Yamaha deal superiority of this weekend’s Catalan GP – believes Friday pacesetter Aleix Espargaro is the only strong rider on track right now and admits he would be facing a forfeiture limitation race if the grand prix was now.

“If the race is now, it will be forfeiture limitation, but we know that in this track the increasingly rubber you put lanugo the increasingly grip you have,” he said.

“So, I hope we can put lanugo a lot of grip during the weekend and we know it’s not going to rain, so every day putting rubber on the track and I hope Sunday arrives where we can make a massive resurgence on the pace considering right now I think only Aleix can really make a really fast pace.

“He’s just five tenths faster, he’s dropping moreover but he’s still five tenths faster. But for us it drops a lot.”