Yamaha have insisted that they need more time to turn around their MotoGP slump, after a drab season-opening race.

The Japanese manufacturer entered 2024 with an air of positivity af🎀ter the add🐭itions of Ducati engineers Massimo Bartolini and Marco Nicotra.

They also had extra preseason testing t🍷ime as part of the new concess♓ions rule, which will aid their development all year.

But at the Qatar MotoGP last weekend, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo (11th) was the best-placed Yam🎃aha or Honda rider.

His Yamaha teammate Alex Rins, on his race debut s♔in🎶ce leaving LCR Honda, was 16th.

"We have 🐎changed things, now we really know what we want to do, where we want to go, but it takes time," Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha team boss, was quoted by .

"We are not magicians.

“We know what needs to be done, and it takes time to get the🍌re.”

Quartararo, whose contract expires at the end of this year making h꧟im among the m🅰ost high-profile riders available to rivals, offered a glum reaction to the Qatar MotoGP.

His team boss reacted to his star man’s disappointment with a bluntly honest assessment of Yamaha’sꦆ lim🍒itations.

“Fabio did what he could for the moment,” Meregaꦡlli s꧋aid.

“We are realistic. We had already seen what we could do here two weeks ago, during testing, when we🐓 did the race simulation.

"We already saw the level.

"Of course we 🍌are not happy, we are realistic aꦗnd objective.

“We have listed what we have to do, but it🎐 takes time♈.

"Faꦇbio works well and tries to be calm, he understands the situation.

“Maybe he was very nervous and disappointed at the beginning of last ♊year.

“Now he has realised that this is the situation.”

Quartararo was the 2021 MotoGP champion and ✱only failed to 🍸win back-to-back titles on the last day of the 2022 season.

But Yamaha’s downturn started midway through 2022 and worsened sever🌸ely last year.

Mꦯeregalli is bullish that they ꦑcan return to competitiveness.

"We are progressing, we have improved top speed, aerodynamics, and we have to achieve this to continue prog🐭ressing,” he said.

“We have a lot of work to do.”

Meregalli reacted to Quartarꦺaro finishing 11th and Rins 16th in Qatar: "I am disappointed, yes, but satisfied because we have done what we could.

"We have collected data, we progressed after the sprint race, b🔯ecause we had a degradation problem. It was still happening on Sunday, but le🅷ss.”