Fabio Quartararo has 12 Grand Prix♈ wins, but he ranked his 11th-place finish at last weekend’s S🦋olidarity Barcelona MotoGP as “one of my greatest races”.

The French rider had nar💛rowly missed out on points in Saturday’s Sprint after suffering a major loss of grip at the end of the ra🗹ce.

That prompted him to try t♎he hard💟-compound rear tyre for the Grand Prix.

“We tried the hard [compound rear tyre] that we n🔥ever tried durin𝐆g the weekend,” Quartararo said.

“I think it was the correct choice, but we had no grip, and I had [Marco] Bezzecchi in front with the soft [compound rear tyre] w🅘ho was spinning all the race and still had mor🥀e grip than me at the end.

“So, clearly we know what we miss, we kno🌊w what we have to improve, but I think I managed to get, to be honest, one of my ꧃greatest races.

“We finished only 10 seconds from the top, even if the position is not super-good, but I🥂 think we can be happy with the race that we managed.”

On Saturday, most riders had w𝄹ritten off the soft-compound rear tyre as a legitimate option for the full-distance👍 race because of the drop-off experienced in the Sprint.

However, Quartararo said he wasn’t surprised to🔜 see Francesco Bagnaia, who ultimately won the race, take the soft rear.

“I knew that Pecco [Francesco Bagnaꦏia] was going with the soft, because [what does he have to lose],” Quartararo said.

“The pace he had was incredible, and I didn’t exp🍌ect [Jorge] Martin to go with the medium [compound rear tyre], because for me the medium was dropping the same as the soft but] with less potential.

“And the hard, I didn’t ♔know, but yesterday Alex [Rins] went with the medium, me with the soft, we both had an incredible drop.

“So I decided🔴 to try the hard, and nothing to lose at the end, and just some information.”