“I rode with Fabio… He was going quite well and it's clear the difference. I cannot stop the bike.”
Quartararo briefly topped the afternoon session and was still in the top three when time attacks began, after which the persistent issue of extracting maximum performance from fresh rubber on the M1 saw him pushed to 12th .Get the latest MotoGP news, exclusives, interviews and promotions from the paddock direct to your inboxBut Rins was down the order throughout, eventually classified in 18th place, just under half-a-second from Quartararo.
“So we went to the hard front, the tyre we used in FP1, and I felt much better, with much more confidence. But still far. I mean I didn't improve 0.5-0.6s to the hard front tyre.”“The time attacks were so difficult for me, I rode with Fabio for my second tyre. He was going quite well and it's clear the difference,” Rins said. “I cannot stop the bike. I'm just going wide in all the braking. Corner 1, corner 3.
“We have a different chassis. In Phillip Island, we decided to go back to the standard one. Because it's the chassis I’ve made more races with,” Rins said. “I don't want to copy the same setup as Fabio because we have different riding styles. This is clear. But at least .”
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