The Misano test doesn’t seem to have gone so well for Yamaha, with Fabio Quartararo revealing that it didn’t go as he had previously anticipated because he was expecting… more and better. What’s more, the former world champion couldn’t even understand whether the engine he experienced was an improvement on the one he currently uses.
Here’s Quartararo’s analysis which, despite some apparent disappointment, seems to have found something that could be useful in the immediate future: ‘I was hoping for a better feeling from this test, but we have to be positive and analyse what happened to improve for the Valencia test. I didn’t test the chassis, just the engine, aerodynamics and tyres. One of the components that was positive was the manifold that we tested under the swingarm. I think we’ll use it in the next races. As for the rest, I think we’ll have to discard some things and bring new ones to the Valencia test.
As for the engine, the #20 has some doubts as to whether it’s really an improvement:
- ‘I can’t say at the moment if it’s better than the current one, I have to test it for longer. It feels different, but I was expecting more power. It’s difficult to say anything really positive about the new engine. Cal [Crutchlow] had already tested it and the comments were more or less similar, although here there was a lot of grip, whereas he tested it on a track where there was no grip.