'The tyre degradation is much more severe. It will be crucial to understand why… we will test our solution during the warm-up.'
Starting 16th, Quartararo made good early progress to twelfth and later put a pass on LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco to regain his status as the top rider on a Japanese machine.
“Tomorrow, we'll have double the number of laps, so we are going to be working on that and try to understand why the tyre drop is so much bigger than last year. We have a lot of time tonight to find a solution.”New team-mate Rins also made some early passes to climb from 20th to 17th, then held 16th in the middle stages before he also began to fade.
“I was trying to manage the rear tyre as much as possible, but I was struggling a lot on the last 5 laps. So, for sure we will need to take more care with the rear tyre tomorrow.
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