It's well known 🌃that Yamaha is chasi𓂃ng greater top speed for the 2020 MotoGP season.

"It's the main deficit𝕴 we need to correct," confirmed Yamaha Ra🔯cing managing director Lin Jarvis.

"We wouldn't want to put all efforts into top speed and lose in other areas, but clearly that's wher🧔e we are struggling. It's probably a mix of horsepower, aerodynaไmics and acceleration."

The latest prototype engine was tried in post-season tests at Valencia and Jerez, but Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:both warneཧd the top speed gap was still too big.

While the Yamaha engineers try to squeeze more from the engine ahead of February's Sepang tests, Vinales - the only M1 race winner since Assen 2017 - also feels he can find more performance by refining his 🍷riding style.

"I'm quite clear abo🧸ut what I have to improve and what the bike has to improve, at least to fight for the title," he said after the final test of 2019. "So we are working very hard for that and for sure now I have two months to improve myself."

Quizzed further, the double 2019 race winner ex๊plained: "A little bit riding style, some things to be a bit smoother, to help the bike to be faster. In that area I think I can do it, I can adapt quite good."

A MotoGP prototype is a unique machine, but Vinales feels he can work on the changes at home and won't even need a full-size m🌠otocross or dirt track bike.

"Even with the small bikes you can do it, it's the type of riding style. I 💃will concentrate a lot to improve🦹 it."

Vinales has often topped the winter timesheets, only to strike🤡 difficulties when th⛎e racing season begins.

After being fastest in both the Valencia and Jerez outings, it was put to Vinales that he is the 'king of tests': "I'd prefer to be the king of anotheไr thing!" he quipped.

Vinales - who fought his way to third overall after a miserable start to last year🐷's world championship - also emphasised that while his impressive testing pace may be unchanged, his approach is very different.

"Actually, we arrive with another mentality. Another programme of work. Especially in the pit box," he said. "In other tests I wa༺s doin꧟g too many laps, trying too many things and not very clear.

"Now less laps, pushing all the laps at the maximum is the♓ important point and wha🅺t we've changed."

💮Vinales switched crew chief from Ramon Forcada to Esteban Garcia for the 2019 season, where he took race wꦕins at Assen and Sepang.