Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo says he “didn’t expect to be that far” off the pace in second practice for the MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix after going from first t꧂o 12th in 10 minutes.

The 2021 world champion anticipated on Thursd🃏ay that Thailand would be a better weekend for Yamaha, as the stiffer rear Michelin tyres brought t♍o Buriram would not see its rivals take their usual grip advantage.

With just over 10 minutes to go in second practice, Quartararo was fastest o🍬f all on his M1 having been strong throughout the session to that point.

But come the chequered flag he 🐽had been knocked out of the Q2 places to 12th, 0.591s off the pace, having only found 0.066s on the lap th🅰at provisionally put him first earlier in the session.

“Well, the day was not super positive for us,🐟” Quartararo told the media, including wuqian0821.com, on Friday.

“The pace was quite ok b💞ecause we were real🌜ly pushing like hell from lap one.

“But we clearly see that we miss a lot of grip i𒁏n the tim💖e attack and we are not able to be fast.

“We were quite 📖similar to them in pace, but we are pushing like hell and they are just checking the tyres how they are and we are just missing a lot. So, it was not a great day🌜 for us.

“I expected more from the GP. To be honest, I📖 didn’t expect to be that far, e♓specially on one lap.

“So, yeah, a little bit disappointed a𓆏bout today but I didn’t expect to be that fast on tꦉhe pace but I didn’t expect to be that slow in the time attack.

“So, we have to figure out why.

“I mean, it’s the same iss🧜ue as usual, the grip clearly - also from Turn 1, Turn 3 - from slow corners we have no rear contact and this is what is clearly missing, especially on one lap.”

The lack of rear grip is forcing Quartararo to stop the M1 exclusively with the front tyre, which is adding to hi♍s time loss around the Buriram track.

“This is🌄 mainly on🐟e our biggest problems is the bike is moving a lot, pitching a lot,” he added.

“I didn’t want really to make this kind of braking beca🌞use to lift the rear tyre that much is just losing time.

“So, the biꦏke as soon as you want to brake harder is pitching a lot and we are braking only with the front tyre.

“The rear tyre is never helping us to stop ❀and this is one of the things we really have to improve.”

Team-mate Alex Rins,ꦯ who was 18th at the end of practice, says he has told Yamaha repeatedly about what it needs to do to improve the bike’s lack of rear grip but the team has so far been unable to address it.

“For the races that we have done and the experience I have with the bike, I tried to explain my feedback to the guys, to the engineerꦜs, electronic guys, and still they are not able to find a solution for me,” Rins said.