Quartararo admits to being “a bit disappointed in the classification”

The French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M1), fifth in official training Australian MotoGP Grand Prix admits to being “a bit frustrated with the classification”.

“I was satisfied with my classification, but disappointed in the position, although it can happenbut it seems like I did a very good lap, but it’s never enough, I think that in terms of pace we’re not that bad, even in the fourth free practice session where we were very conservative with the tires, the speed. it’s not bad, so I’m a little disappointed to qualify,” lamented Quartararo.

The French driver has no problem admitting that he wouldn’t mind following a rival’s wheel, but he made it clear: “When I’m behind someone, they cut, and especially on this track for me, it’s important to warm up the front tire.but if you slowly wait for someone and then when someone sees that you are behind, you will be cut off, you will lose ten seconds in the lap and then the front tire is not ready, especially for those of us who struggle to warm up. it on a lap, So I couldn’t do it.”

The Yamaha rider did not consider that he did some bad training. “It’s not a disaster, it’s fine, because for me the main thing is in the first two rows, because it will be a different race. I think everyone has high tire consumption and it’s one of the worst circuits of the whole year in this sense, so it will be interesting, it’s not the best thing for us, because we have to have a lot of cornering and keep it at speed, but it’s going to be a big, big challenge.

Like Aleix Espargaró, the World Cup leader agreed “It’s more of a race to take care of the tires; maybe not in the first part or first half of the race, but for the end it will be important” and added that he thinks he will be fast. “I hope we can meet, I feel confident, I have done my time alone and the speed is very nice, and I have been conservative with the tires. I feel great on this track.”