Reigning champion Fabio Quartararo, Monster Yamaha team🌳-mate Franco Morbidelli and RNF Yamaha's Andrea Dovizioso all have the same factory bike specification for the 2022 MotoGP season.

But, accorꦐding to Dovizios♏o, the similarities in their situation heading into this weekend's Qatar season opener end there.

"The three factory Yamaha riders are☂ living in a completely different situation; me, Frankie and Fabio," Dovizioso said. "Because Fabio won the💞 title and he has the feeling with the bike at 100%, he is able to use the best potential of the bike easily.

"Frankie didn't really race l🅷ast year [due to his knee injury] and still has to understand, and heꦿ has a contract for next year, so in my opinion he is trying to stay calm and work in the best way, because this is his real situation.

"And my situation is I have to ad🅘apt to a completely different bike to what I used💞 in the last eight years [at Ducati].

"I felt some very positive things from the bike and some limits from the bike. So I think I can understand easily both riders, what they are saying and why. But in the way we are riding the bike, all three are completely different. So all three have not the same iss🅺ues.

"In my opinion, the grip is the biggest [is𒁏sue] for everybody, no matter the riding style, but for some riders it can be bigger 𒉰or smaller because the way you ride is completely different."

Although Quartar🧸aro's wish for more horsepower from the 2022 machine has been thwarted, he remained among the fastest in pre-season testing and a clear step ahead of his fellow M1 riders.

But the Fre﷽nchman also warned he was already on the limit of the bike in some areas.

"I can understand what Fabio says, also because he won t♔he title with a great season last year, but at the end of the s൩eason he felt a bit on the limit," said Dovizioso.

The Italian, preparing to start his first full Yamaha season since 2012 and first Qatar race since 2019, admits he isn't sure what to expect from𓆏 this weeke𒀰nd.

"The tests are always very strange. Even more so because we did them in a strange situation in Indonesia," he said. "My feeling improved a bit, ♑especially on the braking, but still I'm not that confident or comfortable on the b🍸ike. So the situation is not that clear to me.

"I also never rode the Yamaha here. So I'm really happy to be here, but I don't know if I can be really competitive. In my o♉pinion I can be competitive, but after what's happened in the test, it's very difficult for me to know.

"So I will appr𝓡oach the weekend in a really open way. Also because we don't know the situation of the track and the first ro⭕und is also always a big tension from everybody."

The 2018 and 2019 Qatar winner aꦉdded that the lack of the usual pre-season testing in Qatar is compounded by moving the night race time forwards by two hours to 6pm, meaning the majority of this weekend's 𒉰MotoGP practice sessions will be in daylight.

"I don't not that agree about the timing of the practice, but it's something we already spoke about in the past, there were some riders who pushed a lot to race as soon as possible for the humidity," Do▨vizioso said.

"But I think [6pm] is a bit too early, and you can't really work during the weekend, because practice 1 and 3 are🐠 useless. You just ride because you have to ride, not because you can reaꦯlly work, because the conditions are really different [to the race].

"So it wꦬill be a very strange we🐟ekend for everybody."

As well as dealing with the day-night mix, the 2022 rookies - including Dovizioso's team-mate Darryn Binder on the 2021 A Spec bike - will be the first in many years to face their debut MotoGP race weekend wit🃏hout any prior testing at the same track.