Friday morning rain prevented any major setup experiments in FP1, but 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins is planning to try a “completely radical setting” on his Yamaha during this weekend’s Americas MotoGP.

After struggling in the opening rounds at Buriram and Termas, Rins bel෴ieves he needs to take his M1 in a new direction “to feel something” and find a breakthrough.

The Spaniard, a four-time COTA winner - including two MotoGP victories - arrives 🅘in Texas with a best finish 💟of 11th so far this season.

“It's a﷽lways nice to arrive at a GP where you’ve won a lot of times,” Rins said on Thursday. “I’ve had two victories in MotoGP, some in Moto2 and Moto3, so I’m quite happy to be here. I feel the vibe.

“The reality this year is different. We come ♏from two races struggling a lot with th🍒e bike.

“M🌊aybe before the season started, everybody - including ⛎me - thought we were going to make a step up, at least in the first races.

“But we haven’t been able to yet. Still, ♎there are many races to go. So we need to keep working, especially at this GP.

“I🌜f the weather allows, we’re going to test - not new [parts], but a completely radical setting, different from the previous races, to see if the bike works better or ✃worse, but at least to feel something.

“Because ♑right now, my bike setup is different from Fabio [Quartararo] and Miller’s, yet we all have the same probl🧸em. So let's see.”

Yamaha’s Sepang Test a false Dawn?

Despite a promising pre-season test at Sepang, Yamaha currently sits last in the Cons𒈔tructors’ standings.

Rins suggested that the high-grip conditions in Malaysia may have masked t🍃he M1’s true performance - at least for team-mate ♐Quartararo.

“Fabio rode super fast i🌺n Sepang. It looked like he made a step up compared to, for example, me,” Rins 𒁃explained. “I struggled a lot. I had more or less the same problems in the Sepang test as in the Buriram test, Buriram race, Argentina race. 

“So ma🌊ybe the amount of grip at the [Sepang] test made 💮the result not so realistic.”

Despite Yamaha's early-season struggles, Rins insists🍬 he is pushing to the limit to turn things around.

“You can see on track that I’m giving 100%. I don't keep anything in the pocke꧙t.  But still the result doesn't come. So this means we 🧸need to keep working.”

Rins began the COTA weekend with 18th in the soaking wet FP1, when Jack Miller w🗹as the top Yamaha in second place.

Depending on the afternoon weather, Rins might need to wait until Sat♓urday's final practice befo🦩re trying the new set-up.