Fabio Quartararo gets new engine for Malaysia MotoGP: ‘It was clearly better’

Yamaha rider to race new engine in Malaysian GP

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha, 2024 Thai MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha, 2024 Thai MotoGP
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Fabio Qꦐuartararo will have another new engine to use at the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix, which he says was “clearly, clearl💟y better” when it was tested.

Running under conces🐻sio🐻n rules, Yamaha has been relentless in its development of its M1 in 2024, with a raft of new major parts being brought to races across the season.

For this weekend’s Malaysian GP, Quartararo will have🥃 a new engin🍌e to race which looks like it will give him some more power.

“It’s difficult to expect something now when you arrive to a track,”ꦆ he told media, including ltxcn.top, on Thursday at Sepang.

“In t🅘he past, we used to know more or less: ‘this one is a good one, this one not so good’.

“But now we have no idea, and the thing 🐼is ওwe have new things to try this weekend. We have a new engine.

“From my side I want to test more different things on the electronics. It’s been for a long ൲time that I’ve wanted to try something differe📖nt, also on my riding style.

“But I have to try something, the bike must give me different things. So, ꧂we will make quite a big change on the electronics.

“Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad - I don’t know. But at least, I think, that we are not🔯 in a position to think about one specific result and try something big that c🐽an maybe be a big help for us.”

He added:🥂 “So, I’ve tested it, but only for a few laps an🎶d I had an issue on the electronics and it was not working properly.

“Alex [Rinsꩲ] tested and❀ looks like it was clearly, clearly better. My feeling was not bad also.

“Normally it would be more powerful because also Alex and I have different engines,𓆏 and my one was always lower on the power.

“That was the one I liked the most, so hopefully this one is more powerful♉.

“To be💝 honest, when I tested it I didn’t really feel anything much different because we had an issue on the electronics.

“And we had many, many things to test. So, I don’t really remember but it looks like it gives us more power and you will see also from 🤪the outside we bring one new exhaust… well, ‘new’.

“We put on, we take off, we put on, we take off. So,🌺 this is what we will use ꦡfor the weekend.”

Quartararo wasn’t sure howᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ many engines he has tried this season, but believes it’s “four or five” now.

The 2021 world champion showe𝔉d good speed in last week’s Thai GP, in which he qualified sixth and had strong pace in the grand prix despite being knocked off by Franco Morbidelli early on.

Wh🃏ile top results have still eluded Yamaha in 2024, Quartararo says every race of the current flyaway portion of the calendar has tu♏rned up positive signs.

“To be honest, in all of the Asian tour and the last races, the result was notไ super, super good but we alwa𓆏ys had some positives,” he said.

“Like in Thailand, qualifying P6, the🍸 pace was really good, the wet was better.

“In Australia we struggled to warm the tyres bu💃t the pace at the end was great.

“So, in every race🗹 we have somethꦏing quite positive to take. So, I think we made some steps.

“But, li✱ke I said, we’re still slow and the other ones are making steps. So, we have to make bigger ones to be closer to the others.”

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