It is a double-faced Yamaha that ends the first Friday of free practice of the 2022 season. At Losail Fabio Quartararo continued to complain about the lack of top speed and in fact ends his day behind his teammate. Franco Morbidelli is the first of the Italians and fifth at the end of the two free practice sessions on an M1 that lacks in terms of speed, but the Italian-Brazilian driver sees the glass half full.
100% recovered from his knee injury, Morbidelli can now think only of the track and files the Lusail Friday with satisfaction, having recovered the good sensations he had in the Mandalika tests three weeks ago. The Yamaha rider, in his first real year as an official, takes stock of the day: “I felt good today, here we started from where we ended in Mandalika. I was hoping to replicate and have the same feeling as Indonesia and it happened, so I’m happy with that. I got on the bike and had the same feelings as Indonesia at the end of the test ”.
Undoubtedly there are aspects to improve and Morbidelli analyzes them, aware of the fact that we need to work to keep up with the top teams, which at the moment bear the name of Suzuki and Honda: “There are things to improve to stay with the Suzuki and with Honda. These two teams were the fastest today and we need to make progress in some areas, we’ll see how it goes later. We need to improve in the corners and we need to tackle them faster to stay with the guys in front. There is not only the straight. There are braking, distances, accelerations and all the other areas we have to do better than the others to be able to stay with them “.
If Quartararo complains of 10 km / h less than top speed, at the moment this is not a worry for Morbidelli, who recognizes how much this aspect needs to be improved. However, looking only at his side of the box, the Yamaha Italian is satisfied: “Top speed is something we have to deal with, but as far as I’m concerned today I can be satisfied with this aspect. Every year I raced in MotoGP I was always the last in terms of top speed. In my first real year with the factory team I’m in the middle of the table with top speed, so I have to be pretty happy. Obviously, thinking more generally, we need to improve, but personally it’s a positive day in this sense ”.
There is optimism in the garage of the # 21 rider, who not only looks at his situation with satisfaction, but thinks he can finally take that step forward that he saw Suzuki take, today frightening after a suffering 2021 in terms of speed. tip: “We have to work to get a little below the tops. The fact that Suzuki has managed to find power is encouraging, it means that I can do it too. Now we have to work and maybe we will do it! I was very happy to see that they went fast, because it means that it is possible ”.
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