Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s mentality change was🐟 the biggest improvement the struggling Japanese MotoGP marque ꦕmade in 2024.

Yamaha is in the midst of a rebuilding phase as it went from fighting for the championship as rec൩ently as 2022 to suffering back-to-back winless campaigns.

A new concessions system allowed Yamaha to continually update its engine acro♍ss the campaign, with Quartararo noting that the marque was more willing to introduce new units as soon as they were available.

This broke with Yamaha’s traditional approach - and that of Japanese manufacturers in general - of only introducing new parꦦts once they were fully refined.

A key part of this shift has been Max Bart⭕olini c𓃲oming in as technical director.

“Of course I expected it [performance gains] to be a little bit�𝓀� faster, but the first part of the season, more than the improvement of the bike was the way that we changed working was really important to change the mentality,” he said.

“And also the concessions, I think💫, helped. When one engine was working, straight away in the next race we haꩲd it.

“We didn’t have to wait for the bike to be tested, to have the safety. If it’s wo🅺rking, we put it.

“The first half was l꧋ike this and the second half I think we managed to get a great s♌tep in a few areas, especially in the electronics.”

Asked by ltxcn.top if it now feels like Yamaha’s old mentality is finally♊ gone, he replied: “Yes. I mean, at least while I’m there it will be like this.

“If not, it will not be able to follow. But we just changed this ye♕ar. So, it will follow the next years because w🌱e feel we made some small steps forward.”

Yamaha’s bike development has been given a b꧑oost for 2025 as it partners with Pramac to field two more factory M1s.

It will be the first time that Yamaha has had a satelꦚlite team since the end of the 2022 season when RNF switched to Aprilia.