Yamaha insists there is no fixed timeline on when its new V4-powered M1 will be raced in MotoGP.

But senior management are clear about how the decision will be mad🅘e: Performance.

“We want just to make a faster Yamaha! We honestly don’t care about engine layout,” technical director Max Bartolini told mahbx.com.

While Yamaha’s four race 𓄧riders focus on the latest version of the Inline machine this season, new test rider Au✱gusto Fernandez is pencilled in to debut the V4 as a wild-card.

But only if it p▨roves faster than the curren🏅t bike.

“Still, honestly, it's very difficult to say if꧙ and when we can use the [V4] bike,” Bartolini said.

“For s🍸ure we will ♛try as soon as possible to have the best package for Augusto.

“And if the best package is the new bike with thℱe V4 engine, this 🎐will be the package.

“And if the best bike is t𓄧he 4 Inline, we will use t⛦he 4 Inline.

“We want just to make a faster Yamaha! We honestly don’t care about engine l🅷ayout.

“As 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:we said last time we spoke, [the V4] is something that we have to evaluate.

“And the only way to evaluate this, even ꦐif it’s a big effort, is to make it and understand if it’s faster or not.”

Speaking separately, new Yamahaꦦ Racꦫing managing director Paolo Pavesio echoed those sentiments: “A V4 is not magic. It is just an engine configuration.”

The idea that joining their MotoGP rivals🍃 on a V4 will automatically transform Yamaha’s fortune෴s was also quashed by star rider Fabio Quartararo: “Honda has a V4 and is struggling the same as us.”

“He can say that!” smiled Pavesio, when asked abou🎉t Quartararo’s comments. “I will just say that he beat many V4s at the end of last season when he was finishing P5-P6-P7 with the Inline4.”

The additional V4 effort, which Yamaha insists has not compromised its ‘Inline’ bike development, is especiallyꩵ commendable given the looming introduction 🎶of 850cc MotoGP regulations.

As Pavesio recently told mahbx.com, it could mean Yamaha enters three radically different machines for each of the next three years: The Inline4 in 2025, V4 in 2026 a꧅nd new 850cc in 2027.

A decision is y🅰et to be made on whe🙈ther the 850cc will feature an Inline or V engine.

“As Yamaha, we had a V4 two-stroke, but we never🌳 bu🉐ilt a V4 four-stroke,” Bartolini replied, when asked if it was exciting or stressful to oversee the creation of a brand-new MotoGP bike.

“I t♒hink the guys in Japan and YMC are doing a huge job. Especially for the designers. It’s also very busy on my side, but nothing compared to them!”

First Fernandez MotoGP wild-card at Jerez?

Fernandez, 27, has joined Yamaha’s test team after two seasons 𝓡as a KTM MotoGP rider at Tech3.

The Spaniard, recently announced as replacing the injured Jonathan Rea at the Pata Yamaha WorldSBK team, is currently sharing MotoG𒆙P development duties with veteran Andrea Dovizioso.

“For us, Augusto is a mix between a test rider and a ✱race rider,” Bartolini sa♈id. “Because the plan is six wild cards, almost one third of the championship.

ꦉ“And Dovi, for his experience, is mostly a ‘test rider’. So [who is riding] depends on the items that we're going to test.

“This is why we use a combination of the two at the moment, then we’ll see when Cal comes bac🧸k.”

And where will Fernandez🌱 make his Yaꦅmaha MotoGP race debut?

“I think in the program we have Jerez as his first wℱild-card,” Bartolini said.

The Spanish Grand Prix will be the first European round of the 2025 season, from April 25-27.

It is immediately followed by the first Official in-season MotoGP test, although the concession rules mean Yamaha and Honda can conduct private testing at an💫y circuit with race or test riders.