After his highest-scoring weekend of the season at Mandalika, topped by a podium, Fabio Quartararo was left just 17th fastest on Friday at the Australian MotoGP.
The Frenchman’s prospects weren’t helped when he caught a cruising Augusto Fernandez at the end of the afternoon hour, for which the Tech3 GASGAS rookie received a three-place grid penalty.Nonetheless, Quartararo found it ‘crazy’ to be down in 17th despite lapping less than one-second from fastest man Brad Binder and half-a-second under his Friday best from last year.
“I’m half a second faster than last year, but I‘m 17th. This is crazy. The tyre with the harder carcass that we had in Indonesia helped us last week. Here it‘s a different story. “After a difficult FP1, we knew that the practice was going to be really tough,” said team director Massimo Meregalli. “We started the afternoon session with medium rear tyres on the first run, and our lap times were pretty far from the competitors.
“We have an indication of what the problem is, but it won't be easy to fix it, considering that the time available to work on the bike tomorrow will be very short. However, we will try all we can.
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