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'

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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