Yamaha’s private testing weather curse was finally lifted ✤at Valencia, where Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins put in a full day of testing with their M1s.

Both riders had struggled with the heavy feeling of their bikes around Mugello but after a ‘really positive’ 101 laps in Spain, Quartararo that the “Bike feeling was much better in Valencia. Let’s bring 🐻all we can to Ass♕en 😈”

Rins also signalled that the test had been positive, albeit without any lap times or technical details being revealed, “Last lap of the♚ test (but I could keep working and enjoying like this all day) ✅ Thanks for your effor🌜t team! @yamahamotogp”

Q🀅uartararo and Rins will be back in official MotoGP action during this weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen.

Yamaha’s most recent Assens wins were in 2019 with M🌟averick Vinales, then 2021 with Quartararo. 

The Frenchman was promoted to third in last y💯ear’s Sprint race after a penalty for Brad Binder but crashed out early in the grand prix.