Despite two other podiums so far this season, Quartararo was very clear ab♑out which one was the most significant.

Yes, Jorge Martin൲ crashing out of the lead helped the Yamaha rider in a big way, but the pace shown by Quartararo was very impressive💞.

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The 2021 world champion was quicker than both Francesco Bagnaia and Maverick Vinales during the closing stages, which is w🗹hy he managed to close a near three second deficit down to a few tenths come the final lap.

“This is the best podium of the year,” began Quartararo. “In India I was nine seconds from Bezzecchi and in Austin I made the podium b𝐆ut I was a little bit too far from the winners. 

“Today, I really recovered to the top two and really caught up with them ཧdue to my speed. 

“Not because of the conseqꦿuences in the race.🔯 It’s the best podium of the year but Australia is different. 

“Last year💞 wꦗe suffered a lot and it’s a track where you have to take care of the tyres. It’s going to be tricky.”

Although he showed great pace and was rarely outside the top five in both races⭕ this weekend, Quartararo had to overcome slow warm-up🥂 witht the rear tyre which is why he slipped further back during the early stages.

Summing up the weekend, Quartararo said: “It was great! Especially t🐬he second part of the race. To be honest, my feeling this morning was not good in the first laps. 

“On the warm-up lap I pushed a lot because we were strܫugglin♚g to heat up the rear tyre and then after 2-3 laps it was ok. 

“Our pace in the middle part of the race was good and although I co✅uldn’t try and overtak🦄e it was a great race. 

“I think I was✃ 3.5 seconds from Pecco at one stage of the race. To finish really close was good for us.”