Fabio Quartararo: Yamaha still focusing on 2024 bike, 'getting closer'

'We started the season ꦆsuper far compared to the Europဣean manufacturers but I feel we are getting a bit closer. Not really to Ducati, but to Aprilia and KTM'

Fabio Quartararo, 2024 German MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, 2024 German MotoGP

Yamaha's access to technical concessions means that the usual distinction between the factory's current MotoGP bike and next year's model is likely to be blu🌠rred.

Instead, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo explained, Yamaha's focus is on deliveri⛄ng a continuous stream of updates for the M1.

"With the concessions, we don't really think about next year," he said. "You can make improvements every month if you have the parts because we have the free𒈔dom to change the spec of our engine [now]. 

"So this made the focus just🦩 fo๊r the short-term future, and not really about ‘25."

The next significant upgrade is tipped to be the introduction of the second revised engine specification that impressed Quartararo and t🐲eam-mate Alex Rins during a private Valencia test.

The first new spec engine was delivered for Assen, but the second is said to provide 𒐪bigger benefits.

"We tried two engines, one we have since Assen…. And one is coming in the future. The other one is working better, so this i𒀰s going to be really positiv⛎e," Quartararo said.

The MotoGP engine list showed that Quartararo opened a new engine at Assen,🌃 then got another new engine at Sachsenring, racing with the same version as in The Netherlands.

Tಞhe new engine appears to improve agility and🧔 turning but not, it seems, grip and the Frenchman felt that extracting the maximum performance on new tyres held him back in Germany.

"The race was much better than we exp🔴ected, [but] we missed a lot in the beginning with new tyres," he said.

20 seconds faster over the race distance than a year ago but still 17 seconds from Ducati winner 🌊Francesco Bagnaia, Quartararo feels progress is at least being made in catching the other European brands.

"Since Max [Bartolini] arrive𓆉d, the team has changed quite a lot," Quartararo 🌼explained. "We test many things. 

"We started the season super far compared to the European manufacturers but I feel we are ge🥂tting a bit closer. 

"Not really to Ducati, but to Aprilia and KTM."

Quartararo finished the German MotoGP in eleventh place and 7 seconds behind the top Aprilia of Miguel Oliveira, but was just 2.5s adrif♌t of the leading KTM (Pedro Ac💧osta).

Honda also has access to MotoGP's full range of concessions. Its top rider in Germany was Takaaki Nakagami, who finished ܫin 14th place and 8 seconds behind Quartararo.

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