After a season with LCR Honda, Álex Rins will be with Monster Energy Yamaha in MotoGP in 2024 – returning to a bike with a four-cylinder inline engine, just like Suzuki.
However, the Spanish rider told the press after the Valencia tests that the YZR-M1 is different from the GSX-RR: ‘It’s a very different bike compared to Suzuki. I can enter the corner with much more front brake and it’s good because you can gain a little in lap time‘.
Yamaha will be the third different bike that Rins has ridden in MotoGP, after Suzuki between 2017 and 2022 and the Honda RC213V that he rode this season.