The development of Yamaha’s MotoGP bike continues this weekend in Malaysia, and both Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins were enthusꦰed by new electronics updates.

Quartararo, who re✤verted to the standard M1 engine for Saturday after trying a new specification o📖n Friday, explained that the new electronics package gives much more control of the throttle to the rider.

“Basically, we have made some big changes on the electronic💧s,” Quartararo said.

“Always when I talk to Max [Bartolini] he says that the electronics is somethi🐷ng that we are really far away.

“So, I wanted to make a big ch🃏ange from this weekend, and if it was working — it’s working perfect — but even if it was a disaster I wanted to try because [...] I think they don’t want to make too many steps because electronics especially is quite critical, also quite easy to make a high-side.

“I have to control much more [the throttle], it’s much more diffic🤡ult for me to r🍬ide the bike, but we have more performance and this is what we are looking for.”

Although he feels there is more performance with the new electronics, Quartarar✅o said the lack of grip the Yamaha h🎶as compared to other bikes, particularly the Ducati, makes it difficult to ride.

“I have to take care m𒁏uch more— I’m much more the traction control,” he said. “When we compare to the Ducati, for me it’s much 🎉more difficult to ride because we don’t have the grip enough to have the full control on the throttle.

“Our bike is really moving and shaking, so it’s more difficult to really use the 𓂃throttle as TC [traction control] and to have the best performance, but I think that we’ve made a good stepᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ.”

Quartararo also explained that the reason t🐬he update came now is because of ꦐYamaha’s progress in other areas.

“It was possible [to bring the update before], but we had much more꧂ difficulties in other things,” he said.

“Right now, I think we have the possibility to analyse a bit better what the others were doing, and also from behind I could see more things, so I think that was great to do, especially here because there are many cor🥃ners where we can feel it.”

Quartararo’s factory Yamaha teammate, Alex Rins, also bene꧙fitted from new electronics, although unlike Quartararo he used the new-specification engine in the Sprint.

“It was a really positive day,” Rins concluded, “from the morning that we test th💮e strategy on electronics that we test with this engine in Misano, so the good feeling came back.

“[I have] A little bit more the bike in my hand, this for me is so important because I get used to riding like this on the Suzuki, and on every bike I went — Honda, Yamaha — I asked to have the bike in my hand, to con𝓰trol more the spin, picking up the bike when it’s spinning.

“So, it was quite nice, and also it helps on the engine brake side: looks like the rear tyre is more in co♕ntact with the [asphalt] and it helps a bit to stop the bike.”

On the new engine, Rins said there was not much advantage in terms of 𝓰top end power compared to previous specificatio﷽ns.

“Regarding the power on the top speed, 🍌it has more or l🗹ess the same,” Rins said, comparing the new engine with older specifications.

“With t🍒he big muffler, we were able to find more power, around one or two horsepower more, but we are using since this morning the small one, as we test꧟ed in Misano — it’s working a little bit better for the electronics.”