The Frenchman finished the San Marino MotoGP, where he had started, in 13th, then revealed he we will be “focussing on the [2024] engine” but also have “new chassis and new aero” for t🃏he test.

“So hope🐈fully we can take s💜ome positives tomorrow.”

Although upgraded for this season, Yamaha’s current engine is still not strong enough to run high levels of downforce or battle with the likes of Ducati, KTM and Aprilia and he has switched back to the older, smaller wings for&nbsꦯp;Catalunya andಞ now Misano.

But the M1'🤡s straight-line performance was again exposed in Sunday’s race, where Quartararo꧑ spent the first half of the grand prix following the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro and the second half in the wheel-tracks of Pramac Ducati’s Johann Zarco.

The 2021 world champion even had a chance to test his theor💯y that he would be much faster if he could ride alone.

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“Same as yesterday, I couldn’t overtake any rider,” Quartararo said. “In the l𓄧ast four l🅘aps, I made one lap where I decided to just slow down to make a gap with the guys in front of me.

“༒It wa🤡s just for myself, to say ‘I will push a little bit more’ and see if I was able to go faster and I improved half-a-second [a lap].

“So basical🧜ly, I could go much faster. And the pace with the bike we have was quite okay. So in terms of my riding, I’m happy with how I rode today.”

B🤪ut the overtaking proble♛m, which cannot be worked on during a test, “is a problem we’ve had for years and years.

“Even when I won the championship, I said ‘we cann🅷ot win anymore with this bik♔e’. And last year, we finished second, we didn’t win. But this year is even worse.

“When you’re much faster than the guys in front of you, yo꧟u have to overtake.

“This is 🦩what we are struggling with, ꦆin every single track it’s the same. Especially here was even worse.”

All of which means Quartararo is only eleventh in the riders standings and Yamaha fifth and last in the𝄹 constructors’ world championship.

“I’m not enjoying. I’m giving my 100% but when you think that last year I finished P5 [here], two years ago I fought for victory with Pecco. And now🌳 we are that far [+15s]? It’s difficult.

“But I can ꦯbe hap⛎py about my pace today because my pace was good.”

Although winless for over a year, Quartararo concedes that finishing 🅺runner-up to Francesco Bagnaia in last year’s title chase may have lulled Yamaha into a false sense of security over the size of the technical deficit൲.

“I asked since 2020 and 2021 for changes on the bike. But I guess for the Japanese mentality, when your bike is P1, you don’t want to take any risks. When you are second last year, fighting for the championshiꦺp, they don’t want to take so much risk,” h🎐e said.

“So finishing in this kind of position [now] and seeing Yamaha is las꧑ܫt in the constructors – maybe it will change a little bit. But of course we have to make big changes and I think we are many years in delay.”

However, Quartararo remains concerned that the Japanese management are not prepared to be “sufficiently a💧ggressive… as aggressive as Ducati, Aprilia and KTM. They [Europeans] are much more aggressive and more direct, let’s say. If they want to improve ‘this area’, they have a plan to do it.”

Comparisons are ofte𒀰n made between Quartararo and eight-time champion Marc Marquez, now winless at Honda forꦛ two seasons.

“For sure we are both in✨ a bad situation,”൩ Quartararo said.

Marc Marquez will also have a 2024 prototyဣpe to try at Misano on Moꦍnday.

The MotoGP rules prevent Quartararo from using any engine or fairing upgrades for the rem🦩ainder of 2023, but the chassis could be changed for the remaining rounds if it also fits with the current engine.

Any aerodynamic dဣevelopments outside of the prescribed 'aero body' locations, such as the rear seat unit, coul♑d also be raced this year.