Ducati, KTM, Honda, Aprilia: the order of arrival of the Qatar Grand Prix of the class MotoGP he contemplated four different manufacturers in the first four places, even if on the eve no one would have excluded Yamaha and Suzuki from this poker. Mir and Rins’ GSX-RRs had dominated free practice on Friday and the M1 had won both races at Lusail in 2021 with Maverick Vinales scoring in Race-1 and Fabio Quartararo at the top in Race-2. The verdicts issued by Qatar are obviously not without appeal, but the tension at Yamaha is high. The world champion prototype with Quartararo in 2021 improved the time on the race distance by just two tenths compared to 2021 while all the rivals recorded performance gains of over ten seconds.
The Achilles heel of the Yamaha is always the engine, but now the problem is spreading like wildfire because not even in braking and in distance Quartararo was able to make a difference. A new frame is being prepared for this, which will be introduced in one of the first stages of the European season. The engine has been homologated and the recipe of the Japanese technicians to try to remedy the lack of horses it is always the same and it is ineffective. New exhausts and revised fairings in aerodynamics are not enough to equalize the 10 km / h that the M1 pays on the straight against its opponents.
In this scenario, the contract is due to expire Fabio Quartararo is a not indifferent bugbear for Yamaha, which has in French the only point in the light of a Dovizioso who does not seem destined to return to the glories of the past, while Franco Morbidelli still pays for the injury and the operation sustained in 2021. El Diablo is ready to look for the best solution on the market: “My priority is to get the best bike – declared the reigning world champion as reported by today’s edition of the Spanish newspaper AS – this is what matters most to me for the future because I want to win. I am not an engineer, I just know that I will continue to give my best whatever the position I am fighting for “. A clear message to Yamaha: if the M1 is not competitive, Quartararo will accept the best offer on the riders’ market, a market ready to go live and made even more illegible by the results that emerged in Qatar.
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