Yamaha feared the new Aragon surface might have so much grip they would struggle for tyre life, instead "we discovered the opposite."
While all riders struggled for grip on the new Aragon track surface, the pair were hit harder than most.
“This amplified in a negative way our performance. We will spend all the available time before the next session to learn from the data we collected today to prepare something for FP2 and the qualifying sessions. However, the crash forced him to go straight into time-attack mode on a different spec bike and he was left 1.6s behind fastest man Marc Marquez.“I crashed in the afternoon, so I had to go out with a different bike that I was not supposed to use because it was a different spec. Rins was just 0.001s faster than Quartararo on his M1.
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