Alex Rins benefitted from a new specification of Yamaha MotoGP engine in Malaysia to qualify directly 🀅for Q2.

Ri🐟ns ended the day with the seventh-fastest time, one place behind his factory Yamaha teammate Fabio Quartararo, even though much of his Friday was spent understanding and evaluating the new engine that Yamaha brought.

“💖This new engine is supposed to help going into the corner, and is supposed to help in top speed,” Rins explain🎶ed.

“Today we got a lot of information,” Rins said. “They [Yamaha] bring a new engine, the base is a little bit different,𒊎 so we need time to analyse — which bike, because [I had] only one engine, so we change in🦂 which bike it was going better or not.

“The lap time, I focus on the new engine; I did it wඣith the new engine because the setup on that bike it was more our base one.”

Rins’ second bike had a different setting based on one he’d wanted to try on Suಞnday in Buriram, but was unable to test in dry conditions there due to the rain.

“We tried the bike a little bit diff꧙erent, in a different way, as we had planned in Burir🌸am, but still I’m not sure if it’s working or not, so it needs time to analyse.

“But, overall, our pace is not so good, but we are in Q2, so ⛦this gave us margin to improve the bike for tomo✅rrow.”

Despite making it to Q2, Rins said he “cannot say 100 per cent clear yet,” whether Yamaha had made progress or not in one-lap spꦉeed, and he was also without a new electronics package tha𓆉t was tried by Quartararo.

“I didn’t 💎test any different electronics, I just had the same electronics as the last race,” Rins said.

“It’s true that, between Fabio [Quartararo] and me, there is a different approach on the electronic side, but I don’t know what he tested ඣth𒊎is afternoon.

“Overall, for sure it’s so nice to have both riders in Q2,🧸 🥃so this is a good thing for Yamaha.”