The opening day of the official MotoGP Sepang test saw a number of cr🃏ashes, something which Yamaha’s Alex Rins put down to the windy condi🅠tions at the Malaysian venue.

Rins, who finished the opening day 14th overall after taking part in the second and third days of last weekend’s Shakedown test in Sepang,﷽ noted that, during that Shakedown, therꦯe were few crashes across the whole test – in contrast to the multiple falls seen on the first day of the official test.

The crashes included one for Raul Fernandez that ruled him out of the remainder of the test with a fracture ꦇin his left han♐d, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:anotheꦦr for reigning World Champion Jorge Martin, wﷺho sustained hand and foot fractures in a turn two high-side and has therefore also been ruled out of the second and third days of the test.

“Honestly, in the Shakedown we didn’t see any crash, or aღlmost any crash,” Rins said after the first day of the official test in Sepang.

“I will [point] 🧸to the wind, because it was a really strong wind.

“I was a little bit angry because I only did꧋ 41 laps – if I was able to do 42 it would be nice.

“But I only make 41 ꦦlaps and there was a lot of free time waiting for the wind to go down.”

Rins went on to detail the areas of the track which were most affected by theꦅ wind.

“The wind especially bad was turn four, turn five was quite strong, turn nine, 11, 13 after the change of direction where [Pedro] Acosta crashed – I don’t k👍now if he crashed for the wind or not,”ꦉ he said.

A change of Yamaha plans

Rins not only suggested that the wind was the cause of the quantity of crashes on day one in Sepang, but also a change of testing plan for himself and Yꦐamaha.

“Honestly, today, this🌃 strong wind has changed a little b🐻it the plan,” he said.

“In𒈔 the Shakedown we were able to test many things; a little bit setup, some new items like ♋the chassis.

“The result of the chassis in the Shakedown was not super-good, but Yamaha was able to do a step up on the chas🌄sis. So, today we were planning to test the new chassis, modified a little bit, and then a new upper wing on the fairing.

“But we couldn’t for this wind.”

While Rins was limited by the wind, his teammate Fabio 🏅Quartararo had a different perspe🥂ctive on the conditions.

“There are 15 corners, and I 💖think it the wind was disturbing me in four or five corners,” he said.

“So I think the other♉ 10 you can know 🅷if [a new component] was better or not.”

In any case, Rins’ apprehension about the conditions led him to change his plan, and instead of testing new components from Yamaha he focus💦ed on tyres.

“We make a 𒁃change on our plan ✨and we test the Michelin [front] tyres, the three different Michelin tyres that they bring,” he said.

“It was three different types: one is similar to the soft [compound] that we have here, with another co♕nstruction that was notও bad; and then these next two were this different casing, different sized casing.”

Rins said that the𝓀 two tyres with the different sized casing were the develo♛pment tyres expected for 2026, while he was unsure if the third tyre would be raced in 2025 or not.

Looking towards the remaining two days of the test, the Spaniard is aiming to get his testing plan 💖📖back on track.

“I couldn’t make so much wor﷽k apart from that,” he🐎 continued.

“For sure, we have two more da🔯ys, I didn’t put any qualifying tyre to do a good lap time because it was not the right moment, this is what we discussed with our te💖am.

“Tomorrow we💧 will test the chassis and also ♏the fairing, and let’s see if we can find something.”

Quartararo again was contrary to Rins, putting one new tyre at the end to aim at a lap time, one which, in the end, was marginally better than that he managed in Q2 at last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix: a 1:57.592 last November comparing aga෴inst a 1:57.555 set on day one o♈f this year’s test.

“I think it’s positive,” he said. “It’s better than being slower. Also we didn’t really focus on a time attack, so th🦄is is the positive that we were already [...] faster than the qualifying.

“But I was feeling quite good; during qualifying you really focus on making the la🔯p time and now we were just trying many things and put a new tyre at the end to try to make a 🌸good lap time.

“I think already riding for two days, two days of rest, and c🎀oming back of course it’s ﷽helping the lap time, but I think we did a good job.”