Rins needed “more balls” for stronger Qatar MotoGP qualifying lap

Rins was the only Suzuki rider to make it into the second part of qualifying directly from practice having felt like he’d made an improvement on one-lap pace on Friday.

But the three-time race winner admits he found it “harder” on Saturday to be as strong in time attack mode and could only manage ninth, 0.718 seconds off the pace.

“Not fantastic, but not bad,” he said of his…