Fabio Quartararo: Yamaha still focusing on 2024 bike, 'getting closer'

'We started the season super far compared to the European manufacturers but I feel we are getting a bit closer. Not really to Ducati🐓, but to Aprilia and KTM'

Fabio Quartararo, 2024 German MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, 2024 German MotoGP

Yamaha's access to technical concessions means that the usual distinction between the factory's current MotoGP bike🙈 and next year's model is like🍸ly to be blurred.

Instead, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo explained, Ya⛄maha's focus is on delivering a continu𝔉ous stream of updates for the M1.

"With the concessions, we don't really think about next year," he said. "Yo💝u can make improvements every month if you have the parts because we have the 𓃲freedom to change the spec of our engine [now]. 

🅠"So this made the focus jusꦗt for the short-term future, and not really about ‘25."

The next significant upgrade is tipped to be the introductioꩲn of th🌄e second revised engine specification that impressed Quartararo and team-mate Alex Rins during a private Valencia test.

The first new spec engine was delivered for Assen, but the✱ second is said to provide bigger benefits.

"We tried two engines, one we have since Assen…. And one is co♉ming in the future. The other on🧸e is working better, so this is going to be really positive," Quartararo said.

The MotoGP engine list showed that Quartararo opened a new engine at Assen, then got another new engine at ꧃Sachsenring, racing with th🍰e same version as in The Netherlands.

The new engine appears to improve agility and turning but 🅺not, it seems, grip and the Frenchman f🏅elt that extracting the maximum performance on new tyres held him back in Germany.

"The race wasꦿ much better than we expected, [but] we missed a lot in the beginning with new tyres," he said.

20 seconds faster over the race distance than a year ago but still 🤪17 seconds from Ducati winner Francesco Bagnaia, Quartararo feels progress is at least being ma𒅌de in catching the other European brands.

"Since Max [Bartolini] arrived, the team has changed quite a lot," Quar🌊tararo explained. "We test many things. 

"We started the season super far ꦓcompared to the European 🔯manufacturers but I feel we are getting a bit closer. 

"Not really to Ducati, but to Aprilia and KTM."

Quartararo finished the German M📖otoGP in eleventh place and 7 seconds behind the top Aprilia of Miguel Oliveira, but was just 2.5s adrift of t🌃he leading KTM (Pedro Acosta).

Honda also has access to MotoGP's full range of concessions. Its top rider in Germany was Takaaki Nakagami, who fini🌸shed in 14th place and 8 seconds behind Quartararo.

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