If Valentino Rossi hoped to leave Monday's Catalunya MotoGP test witꩵh the breakthrough needed to end Yamaha's one-year losing streak, he was to be disappointed.

Despite rumours earlier in the season of a major electroni꧒c upgrade at Barcelona tꦍo help acceleration, the Italian confirmed he had "nothing big or special" to try.

Instea🐓d, there were "two or three small ideas, small things that I hoped can help us in acꦉceleration".

Those were thought to include a🔯 ಌrevised seating position.

But they didn’t work.

"Unfortunately, we are not able to improve per𒁏formance and our acceleration," said Rossi, who was 14th fastest, 1.2s behind Honda's Marc Marquez, after 58 laps.

"I was like ye𒀰sterday. Looking at the data and everဣything, we were not able to go faster.

"It's a shame. But it's like🅘 this. It's not easy. It's long work. So it's normal."

The Doctor - third in Sunday's race after Andrea Dovizioso's accident, but six-seconds behind the other Ducati of race winner Jorge Lorenzo - must now wait uꦦntil after the summer break f𓆉or major new parts on his M1.

"We hope in the next test, in Brno on the Monday af🌸ter tﷺhe race, to find something else," he said.

"And until Brno, we will race w♚ith the s🦄ame bike as now."

Is the current bike good enough to win with?

"Ah… What do you think?!" Rossi lauꩲghed❀. "But we try. We try for sure!"

Rossi - who remains second in the world championship, but now 27 points from Marquez - will🧸 return to the scene of his most recent MotoGP victory during the next round at Assen.

Team-m𒊎ate Maverick Vinales was ninth quickest at the test. 

The Spani𝓰ard didn't like the different seating position and his only progress was in terms of set-up to help his early race issues.