“What went wrong”? “Nothing, all right, that’s the problem”. This exchange between two great friends like Jack Miller and Fabio Quartararo at the end of Qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix, he unequivocally depicts the discomfort that the reigning world champion is experiencing in front of a Yamaha M1 that has not grown up compared to last season. El Diablo had nothing to complain about in Qualifying, yet he had to settle for the fourth row of the starting grid, who since his debut in MotoGP in 2019 with the M1 customers of the Petronas team on the flying lap has always been formidable (a Jerez in 2019 stole the youngest pole position from Marquez in the history of the premier class of the World Championship).
Lin Jarvis, on the occasion of the presentation of the Yamaha 2022, declared that the goal is to win both the riders ‘and constructors’ titles. The season did not start under the best auspices from this point of view and in Mandalika it will already be time for exams without appeal for the M1 on a more tortuous and less engine-driven track like that of Lusail. Fabio Quartararo has lowered his speed by two tenths compared to 2021 in terms of overall time on the race distance, the problem is that the other manufacturers have significantly lowered their reference. Below are details of Yamaha’s marginal growth e dizzying in the case of Honda, Aprilia and KTM.
Yamaha: 0.256 faster in Qatar than in 2021 on the race distance
Suzuki: 8,044 seconds faster
KTM: 15,432 seconds faster
Honda: 15,511 seconds faster
Aprilia: 13,939 seconds faster
Ducati: 12,256 seconds faster.
Impressive the growth of KTM and Honda, manufacturers that not by chance got on the podium yesterday with Brad Binder and Pol Espargarò behind an amazing Enea Bastianini who led the ‘old’ Ducati to success, which therefore challenged itself by improving itself by over 12 seconds. The Aprilia test was also decidedly positive, close to the podium with Aleix Espargarò. After a promising Friday Suzuki disappointed, but the GSX-RR is on the rise. The Yamaha M1, on the other hand, remained stationary for 2021.
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