Yamaha recently introduced an update to their MotoGP engine, and at the Emilia Romagna GP, their performance was the best of the season so far, with Fabio Quartararo narrowly missing out on a top-five finish.
According to team manager Massimo Meregalli, who spoke to the official championship broadcast, the improvements focused on handling, though they came at the cost of top speed:
– With this new engine configuration we lost some top speed, but the bike got back some handling, that basically was missing since the beginning of the year. For sure this is now a good reference, because now we know how the bike should turn, but we also know which amount of power we need.
Finding this balance is Yamaha’s mission at the moment, as the Italian emphasized: ‘That’s the goal, and in Japan now they are working in this way. Hopefully by Valencia test we can test a different specification to go in that direction’.