Factory Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo 𒁃may be able to make clutch-lesꦛs downshifts, but they are not yet seamless.

Yamaha joined Honda and Ducati in👍 running a seamless shift gearbox during the second half of last season, slashing the time lost when changing up the gearbox.

Clutch-less downshifts - changing✤ down without using the clutch lever - were then introduced for 2014. Note Rossi's left hand💞 in the pictures below:

However Honda remains a step ahead due to shorter and smoother 'seamless' downshifts. A crucial part of braking and corner entry.

"Our seamless shift is only upshift and not downshift," confirmed Yamaha MotoGP Group Leader Kouichi Tsuji. "I think the Honda [gearbox] is both up and down, seamless. We are trying to catch up, but 𒈔when I don't know. We are pushing h🍌ard to develop. Maybe this is part [of the gap to Honda] but not everything."

𒅌On Thursday at Brno, Ro🦄ssi stated that Honda seems to have 'found' something and increased the gap to Yamaha this year.

"Honestly speaking our machine is still behind Honda's RCV," Tsuji admit𒁏ted.

At that point HRC♚ vice president Shuhei Nakamoto quipped: "But our ride🔯rs complain also!"

World champion Marc Marquez has won every ra⛄ce this season with Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa second in the championship.

Rossi had speculated that the 2014 Honda gain is from "something in the electronic and also in the ℱchassis."

Nakamoto rejected the sugg🧸estion that there has ๊been some form of technical breakthrough.

"Some people are saying Honda are doing something special, but the reality is not," he de🍃cl𝓀ared. "Marc doesn't want to use the Honda traction control system - so our traction control system is the rider's right hand!"

In other words, Marquez favours🎃 as little t♊raction control as possible.