Quartararo has spent the winter complaining about the lack of development Yamaha has made with its engine, with its top speed deficit from last year remaining.
On Friday in Qatar, Quartararo was last on the speed traps and is over 10km/h slower than practice pacesetter Alex Rins on the Suzuki (which has an inline four-cylinder engine like the Yamaha).
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Quartararo was eighth on the combined timesheets, over four tenths off of Rins, and admits he is “missing something strange” on the 2022 Yamaha currently.
“For me at the moment, I feel different,” Quartararo said.
“I feel not so comfortable because on one lap, even in the test, I didn’t feel so great. But today I was missing something strange.
“I was fast in the first two sectors, but we missed something, and we need to understand why and we need to solve it tomorrow because we are not extremely safe for the Q2.
“So, we will see if we make a…
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