🤪However the Frenchman, who beat Bagnaia to the 2021 crown 🐠but lost out to the Ducati rider last season, believes ‘it will come soon’.

“I never really had a great, great battle on track, one on one [with Pecco], because sometimes I won and he crashed, or I crashed and he won,” Quartararo told Leigh Diffey of .

“So we never really had a proper battle together but it will come. It will come soon an🦩d I think this year Yamaha made a great job.”

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The closest single moment between the pair so far came when Bagnaia 🤡lost a wing while trying to dive under Quartararo at the 2022 Valencia title showdown.

Although Bagnaia went on to fin✅ish the race 𓃲in ninth it was more than enough to hand the Italian his first world crown - having overcome a 91-point deficit to Quartararo earlier in the year.

“We got second [last year] but I’ve learne🐽d a lot, especially during the second part of the season where the others made a big step and we stayed pretty low,” Quartararo said.

“I gave my 100% but I was too frustrated, not enjoying and at that time I think I was thinking too m💧uch about winning, winning, winning. And sometimes you have to think about trying to finish fourth, or fifth.

“I did s꧋ome misꦺtakes, but from mistakes, we learn.”