Fabio Quartararo: Test team boost if no satellite Yamahas in 2025?

Yamaha to pump resources into its MotoGP t🥃est team if satellite project proves impossible for 2025?

Fabio Quartararo
Fabio Quartararo

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo says it would not be a ‘disaster’ if Yamaha cannot secure a satellite team for the 2025 MotoGP season.

But it would mean💜☂ the factory needs to pour resources into its factory test team to compensate.

Yamaha, the only manufacturer with just two machines on the grid, has been pushing hard to tempt either VR46 or Pram꧋ac away from Duca𝕴ti.

But VR46 has made clear its preference is to keep 🌼the more competitive Desmosedicis, while ꦛthe surprise Pramac speculation has also cooled.

“A disaster? No,” Quartararoဣ said if there is no satellite Yamaha team in 2025. “But I think it w💞ill be the moment to invest even more in the test team. 

"I think to have another rider [alongside Cal Crutchlow], to have more bikes, mo♎re people working in there.

“Of course, it's always better to have a satellite team, but… Already the step we made from last year to this year [with the race team] is am♏azing [and maybe] we have to make the step alsoꦗ for the test team.”

Following a rec🐭ent private test at Mugello, Quartararo and team-mate Alex Rins will have new aero for this weekend's Barcelona rou💞nd.

But the test 🐎also helped pinpoint how the M𒉰1 needs to improve in the longer term.

“[The 🐻Mugello test] was great because we could analyse quite well where is the main priority to improve for us, from now until the end of the season,” Quartararo said.

“We don't know how we're going to improve 🌞it, but we know where it is.

“And t🎃hen we used the new aero package that was better for Cal, better for me and better for Alex. So we will use it during this [Catalunya] weekend.”

The new✃🦄 aero offered: “A little bit of help on the turning. Not a big difference, but whatever we can slightly improve, we do. And it was slightly better in the amount of lean angle we could have.”

The area of future improvement seems based around the engine, with Quartararo revealin💙g he has already raced with a revised spec, albeit only lightly tweaked.

“I think in Jerez race we were with a 'new 🍎engine'. But when we say 'new engine' at this moment it’s🔥 [a small difference]… Because you cannot really totally change an engine. But we are working also for this year to try to improve it.

“The engine [now] is fast,” Quartararo added. “I never really complained this year about the power. But we used to have agiliꩵty and a lot of turning witꦉh the bike and no top speed.

“Now we 🍌have the top speed, but we don't have the agility and the turning of the past. So right now the goal number one is to find back t🐟his agility and the turning we used to have.

“That's ಌwhy I think Mugello test was great because we tested several bikes and we saw where - exactly where, we don't know - bu𝕴t we know we have to work a lot in the engine.”

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