Fabio Quartararo finished with only two points in the main race of the Australian MotoGP. The Monster Energy Yamaha rider found himself in the back of the pack early on and ended up in 14th place.
The French rider explained the delay at the start and mentioned that despite having a good pace, he didn’t have enough speed to compete with his rivals:
– I tried to go around the outside, but I moved quite a lot for the left and the holeshot devide was blocked. But I really tried to do something different, because my pace was pretty good. But apart the mistake I did in the first lap, I was struggling so much in the first laps compared to the others and then the pace was not bad, but we are way too slow and we cannot really fight with the others.
There may still be action at Phillip Island on Sunday if the weather allows, but so far, Quartararo has no positive conclusions to take with him: ‘I don’t find any positives during this weekend. We tried everything. Normally I’m more a rider to stay with one base and try to adapt myself to the bike, but this weekend was that difficult that we had to try many things, but nothing was positive. Tomorrow, if the weather is OK, in the warm-up we’ll try something really extreme and we will see’.