Yamaha looks set to debut a holeshot⛎ start device at next month's Sepang MotoGP test.

Ducati has run a special starting system, which lowers the rear of the bike, since Motegi 2018, with Aprilia then fitting a more conventional m🍰otocro🐭ss-style front fork system at Brno last August.

Both methods work by temporarily locking the suspension in a compressed position, therefore lower♔ing the centre of gravity and 𝐆helping to prevent wheelies, which are the limiting factor for maximum MotoGP a♔cceleration.

Yamaha and especially Maverick Vinales are arguably most in need of such a device, with the Span𓃲iard repeatedly seeing his victory hopes thwarted by a poor getaway. The #12 admits starts are🦹 now his top priority for 2020 and confirmed something is in the pipeline for the opening test of the year at Sepang.

"I think we have a really good compromise [with the Yamaha packa🐻ge] right nꦫow," said the double 2019 race winner, during an interview with . "We are fast in many tracks. I think our chassis is fantastic. Our top speed is not the best, but we can manage.

"For me, the most focus to improve is the start. The start is very important, because all Yamahas lose many races at the start. So we ar💜e working very hard at the factory, maybe to mꦇake a device for the start like other competitors [have already] or something new. And we will try to have it ready in Malaysia.

𓂃"So I think our focus [🐻for 2020] is on the start and then not to lose so much top speed."

It would not be a surprise if the other factories - Suzuki, Honda and KTM - also have a holeshot device to try in Malaysia, following the apparent success of the Ducati and Aprilia system𒊎s. Honda revealed it used a front-fork start device with Alvaro Bautista in 2012-2014, but do🗹es not yet have such a system on the RC213V.

The main drawback of a start device is the risk that it may not disengage at Turn 1, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结🔴果历史:as happened to Jack Miller at Silverstone.

Vinales, fastest in post-season testing at Valencia and Jerez, described the latest M1 prototype as "very similar" to last year𝓡's machine "which is really good", but expects to have more new parts to evaluate at Sepang.

The 25-year-old also explained why he has been so quick in pre-se🍸ason testing in the past, only to then struggle when the racing gets underway.

"Normally in a test there is always Michelin rubber on the track. So the grip is fantastic. And with grip our bike is always fantastic, very fast," he said. "But then we racಞe after Moto2, with Dunlop rubber. It changes [the grip] a lo𓃲t and our bike is the one that suffers more with a change in grip. I think that's the reason."

Meanwhile, a boost in front confidence is credited for allowing Vinales to turn﷽ around a poor start to 2019 and go on to take Yamaha's only wins of the seas🐟on, at Assen and Sepang.

"I think in Catalunya test we found a really good set-up, with which I felt much more comfortable with the front tyre, more confidence," he said⭕. "Then we used that setup until the end of the season. There were tracks where it was better or worse, but normally it works, to beಞ fighting for the victory."

Vinales eventually finished the year th♛ird in the world championshiꦫp, as the top Yamaha.

The Sepang test takes place from February 7-9.