At 300km/h, a MotoGP bike is moving at over 80 metres per 🌞sec🌳ond.

One of the difficulties faced by Danilo Petrucci during qua🌳lifying for the Styrian MotoGP was that a braking point difference of 4-5 metres cost him 0.2s in just two corners.

To put that level of precision into perspectﷺive, it takes a MotoGP bik🍎e just 0.060s to cover 5 metres at 300km/h.

"The limit is really tight," Petrucci said.

The Italian had joined fellow Ducati rider Johann Zarco in progressing through Qualifying 1, his lap time of 1m 23.772s beingꦰ good enough for sixth on the grid if he had repeated it in Qualifying 2.

Instead, Petruc꧟ci was l𒁃eft in twelfth place, which means eleventh on the grid after Zarco's penalty, with a 1m 24.174s.

"I was happy about the improvements we did today but the fact is that I'm always o🐼n the limit, always too sensitive to the limit," he said. 

"I mean, in Qualifying 1 I was able to do a very good time꧒. But whenever I tried to🙈 do a little bit more, I always go wide.

"Then in Quali💎fying 2 I braked just 4-5 metres earlier in Corner 3 and Corner 4 and I lost tw🍸o tenths. So the limit is really tight."

Adding to the braking complications for Petrucci is that he's unable to use the rear to stop the bik🦂e.

"At the moment it's the main thing we miss and the thing that allowed me to be so fast at 🎉the beginning of last year," he said.

"The fact is, this year I🐻 cannot use the rear to brake because the bike becomes very unstable.

"The [2020] rear tyre has changed a lot this feeling and for me I cannot stop all the weight with only the front tyre. I need more support from the rear 🌠tyre and at the moment we haven't got it. Also the engine brake is very different to last year."

Further increasing th🌺e pressure on Petrucci to get every last metre from&ওnbsp;braking is a lack of top speed compared to team-mate Andrea Dovizioso.

"Unfortunately I'm bigger and, last we🏅ekend, there wasn't so much difference but we noticed it from yesterday anꦡd this morning," he said.

"There are four straights here: The start-finish, after Turn 1, after Turn 3 and after Turn 8. And I lose 0.2-💝0.25s every lap. This is quite a big diffe💜rence over a race distance.

"So we have to understand why. Maybe it's the aerodynamics, because I exit from the cornꦛer a little bit faster but I still lose in the main straight. And to close that gap in braking is tough🌞.

"The good thing is maybe tomorrow will ꦐbe a little bit cooler and this can o💧nly help me. So I'm confident."

Dovizioso, last Sun꧂day's winner, ♐will start from eighth on the grid.