Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi does not feel he had the pace to finish higher than fourth in the 2016 MotoGP season opener in Qatar. After finishing a close fourth behind race winner teammate Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez, Rossi admitted he gave all he had in the grand prix. Asked if he could've pushed to the front earlier, Rossi said: "No, no, no. It's not [my] decision, unfortunately, not a mistake about strategy. It's because I don't have any more [pace] than this. "I was strong but not enough to try one attack, to have one sector, one braking, one part where I was a little bit faster than the guys in front of me. "I was always there, but always 10 meters...
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