Monster Yamaha arrives in Qatar aiming to build on signs of progress at the Circuit of the Americas, where 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo delivered a season-best sixth in the S🧸print - the 𓄧top non-Ducati finisher.

Sunday’s chaos then left the Frenchman tenth on a ‘hybrid’ bike, but Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller flew the Yamaha flag with fifth place.

That again made Yamaha next-best behind Ducati, as Miller also took the M1’s best GP resu♒lt since 2023.

"In Doha, we can pick up where we left off in COTA in 🥀terms of performance, which was actually quite decent,” said Monster Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli.

“Without the sighti𝐆ng-lap crash and the other mishaps [for Quartararo], we would have been able to get a better result.”

Quartararo and Yamaha will now hope the revised bike set-up will deliver at Lusail, where the Frenchman expect🦋s hot temperatures and a ‘long’ main race.

"Lusail was usually the first track [of the season] but this year the order changed. Because of this, it feels like we haven't been here in a long time, also because we had no test here in the pre-season,” Quart😼araro said.

“We know that we can expect higher tempe🎀ratures than during last year's GP, because this time we are visiting in April. I expect it will be a hot GP weekend and a long race, but I'm looking forward to it.

“We didn't get the results we wanted in Austin, but we did see some positives, especꦺially in the Sprint. So, I'm looking forward to trying again this weekend, though I know the competition will be tough."

Team-mate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Rins🍸 is still seeking a top ten finish, claiming eleventh in the last two GPs.

"We are still in 🃏the process of finding the ideal set-up,” he admitted. “We'll keep working on th𒊎at, starting from where we left off in Austin.

“Qatar will be a 𓆏high-[tyre]degradation track, so we'll 💙need to keep an eye on that, but I'm ready and motivated to keep working on it."

COTA "confirmed the improvement"

Meregalli is confident𒆙 that Yamaha now has a base to build upon as it seeks to rise from fifth and last in the constructors’ stanඣdings.

“The Americas GP has confirmed the improvement of the performance of the M1. So, we are star♊ting the Qatar GP motivated to build on this base,” he said.

“The Lusail track is not bad for the characteristics of our 🦹bike, so we think we can continue ♑the trend."

Yamaha starts Qatar five p𓆏oints behind Aprilia in the constructors' standings, 🧸six from KTM and eight points from Honda. 

However, Ducati, unbeaten 🏅in a Grand Prix for over one year, ꦅis already a massive 75 points clear of Honda.

Yamaha is the most successful m🌸anufacturer at Lusail with 10 MotoGP wins for four riders: Valentino Rossi (2005, 2006, 2010, 2015), Jorge Lorenzo (2012, 2013, 2016), Maverick Viñales (2017, 2021/1) and Fabio Quartararo (2021/2).