Petronas Yamaha's Valentino Rossi believes the upcoming MotoGP tracks in Europe will show whether or not he is truly competitive in 2021.

Despite finding a silver bullet on Sunday at the second race, The Doctor could only muster 16th place from his 21st-place grid start but pointed out that he was 14s off the lead in the closest-ever MotoGP race.

"In Europe there is a lot of good tracks for me. So, we hope that when we come back in Europe we can be stronger. We found some different settings for the electronics where I could stay with the pace more constantly," said Rossi.

"Unfortunately, we found it just in the morning and my position in the start was very bad. Now it's difficult because all the riders, all the bikes are strong and being within 10 seconds from the win you are 15th.

"We have to see the other race tracks starting from Portimao, we'll try to understand if we are more competitive."