Fabio Quartararo had another MotoGP weekend to forget as he crashed out of the second Valencia race, giving Joan Mir an easier run to the 2020 title.

The Petronas Yamaha rider, who uses a 2020 model while team-mate Franco Morbidelli won on a 2019 bike, hasn’t felt good on the M1 since the French GP.

“The feeling since the Le Mans GP is not there, we are trying to work in the best way possible, we are not fast and we need to find a solution,” said Quartararo, speaking at the track.

“I hope to find it in Portimao because we are missing speed and this is not normal.

“When we arrive to a track like Jerez, Barcelona, it was great straight away, but Misano and all the other tracks we are struggling way too much and I think we need to find a solution to be competitive like last year in every track.

“We have been here for two weeks and in two weeks we have not made any improvement on the bike.

“We try many things, but I think we need to go with our base and adapt. I need to adapt myself to the bike because we saw doing all these changes nothing was working.

“So, I think the best is to go with our base. If we see that everything is going well in the position of the bike, of course we don’t change nothing.

“If we see something strange, of course we change. But I think we just need to adapt ourselves to the bike and see what we can do.”