By the time the mistake was corrected, Rins only had enough time for one flying lap on the correct tyres and w♐ill start the British MotoGP from eleventh on the grid.

“A little bit disappointed, because we were doing a good job in FP1, FP2, FP3, FP4 . But it was 🐓a little bit of a disaster in qualifying,” Rins said.

“The Michelin guys and also my team made a small mist⛎ake and I did the ဣfirst run with the hardest compound on the front.

“I didn't understand why it was so difficult to 🌳stop the bike. But then when we [pitted], myself and the team saw that I was using the hard.

“Theyღ changed it, which took a lot of time and then I o🐓nly was able to do one more lap.

“With all this stressful time, I still impr꧟oved my lap time and did my pe🦂rsonal best in this track. So it's OK.”

Quizze🙈d on how such a mistake had happened with the tyres, Rins explained:

“The number of th༒e tyre was exactly the same, just two letters were different between the soft and the hard compound.

“The team said to Michelin [via] an app on the phone to mount the softest compound. Michelin did a mistake and put the hardest compound, but then the team 🎉dꦬidn’t check it later.

“I noticed [something] when I was on the bike, but I say ‘OK maybe there is a little bit of wind’ or something like this. But corner 12 is quite critical, a🗹nd the hardest compound is easy to lose…”

Despite the setback, the 20♉19 Silverstone❀ winner is remaining upbeat.

“Right now in MotoGP, if you start on the first or maxim🔯um second row, you have half the race done. But it is what it is," he said.

“Let's start again on the fourth row, we did it in the past,ꦦ so we need to think positive. I mean we have a really really strong pace with the medium and with the hard compound on the♌ rear, we still need to decide which is the best for tomorrow.

“Zarco did a good FP4, with the hardes🦩t compound,” Rins added, when asked about who is looking strongest for the race.

“Fabio also with a lot of laps on the medium one, he was riding quite fast. Mart🅠in did a good last two laps with the used mediu🐠m, I think. So more-or-less a lot of people have a good pace.

“Let’s see what happens in the first laps.”

Tea꧃m-mate Joan Mir will start just behind Rins, in twelfth.