Factory Yamaha MotoGP rid⭕ers Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo may be able to make clutch-less downshifts, but they are not yet 🐟seamless.

🐬Yamaha joined Honda and Ducati in running a seamless s🌊hift gearbox during the second half of last season, slashing the time lost when changing up the gearbox.

Clutch-less downshifts - changing down without using the clꦚutch lever - were then intr𝔍oduced for 2014. Note Rossi's left hand in the pictures below:

However Honda remains a step ahead due to shorter and smoother 'seamless' downshifts. A crucial part of braking and corner entry.

"Our seamless shift is only upshift and not downshift," confirmed Yamaha MotoGP Group Leader Kouichi Tsuji. "I think t💎he Honda [gearbox] is both up and down, seamless. We are trying to catch up, but when I don't know. We are pushing hard to develop. Maybe this is part [of the gap to Honda] but not everything."

On Thursday at Brno, Rossi s⭕tated that Honda seems to have 'found' something and increa꧙sed the gap to Yamaha this year.

"Honestly speaking our machine is still behind Hon🐻da's RCV," Tsuji admitted.

At that point HRC vice pres🔥ident Shuhei Nakamot🙈o quipped: "But our riders complain also!"

World champion Marc Marquez has won every rไace this season with Repsol Honda team-mate Dan👍i Pedrosa second in the championship.

Rossi had speculated that the 2014 Honda gain is from "something in the electronic and also iꦺn the chassis."

Naka🍰moto rejected the suggestion that there has been some form of technical breakth🏅rough.

"Some people are saying Honda are doing something special, but the reality is not," he declared. "Mar☂c doesn't want to use the Honda traction control system - so our tractio♛n control system is the rider's right hand!"

In other words, Marquez favours as 🌄little traction control as possib💖le.