Fabio Quartararo provides intriguing update about upcoming Yamaha engine

Fabio Quartararo: “I'm 🗹pushing to have it as soon as pos💎sible... I would like to have it tomorrow"

Fabio Quartararo, 2024 British MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, 2024 British MotoGP

For the third time in as many rounds, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo ran a 'new' Yamaha engine for the British MotoGP at Silverstone.

It took his total number of engines used this season to s⭕even (out of nine) but the Frenchman is still eagerly awaiting the most promising specification tried at June’s private Valencia test.

“We are working on it, to have it ready. I think this🔴 can a𒆙lso be a good help for us,” Quartararo said at Silverstone.

“I'm pushing to have it as soon as possible.

“I would like to have it tomorrow𒈔, but it's going to be difficult. I'm pushing every day to have it as fast as possible.

“If we can have it in Misano, Aragon or wh𓆉atever, but as early as possible.”

The 2021 world champ﷽ion is keen to get his hands on the powerplant since it helped restoౠre some of the M1’s former handling prowess.

“It's better, because we found more or less 2021 and 2022 handling,” said Quartararo, who took his and Yamaha’s mo♍st recent MotoGP wins in the ope⭕ning half of the 2022 campaign.

“Of cou�꧒�rse, like always, when you take a positive, you lose another thing [top speed].

“But what I'm struggꦺling wi🎐th right now is to ride the bike in a natural way.

“You push but you feel that there is something missing and with this [Valencia] engine it's better. But we lose some speܫ⛎ed.

“So it's different, but I prefer to, like in the past, lose in the straight and be faster in the corners, than be fast in✤ the straight a﷽nd super slow in the curves.”

Quartararo hasඣ been using one of the multiple engine options from the Valencia test since Assen, revealing later in the Silverstone weekend that he had ♔a different spec in each of his bikes.

“Bꦅasically, we tried three engines in Valencia. One [the most promising] is going to take a bit more time, but we are using two engine specs this weekend and one will arrive later during the year,” Quartararo explained.

But mixing engine specs and electronics made for a complicated British MotoGP🌌 weekend.

“We have two different spec⛎s, then we tried some differences on the electronics, but the thing is that the two engines are completely different in the way of riding,” said Quartararo.

“One bike is much more heavy [handling] but has better stopping performance. The other bike is more light but d𝓀oesn't stop. So you get to one braking zone [with one engine] and you go, ‘oh f**k, I could brake later’, or you brake too late [with the other engine].”

The end result left Quartararo nowhere near his go♍al of direct Qualifying 2 access and starting just 18th on the grid. The 25-year-old then returned to his usual position as the top rider on a Japanese bike in both races but was only eleventh at the flag.

“Just before the Sprint we were trying way too many things, one bike to the other and I was going into the qualifying without an🍌y reference,” he said. “With one bike I had to ride in one way, with the other one in another way, so I was completely lost.

“For t𓂃he Sprint I said, I want to have a base that I know more or less and it was much better. Still not very good, but at least we finished not super far from Jack [Miller] who was seventh. But we struggled quite🎀 a lot this weekend.”

Quartararo's testing workload won’t have bee꧅n helped by recent injuries for team-mate Alex Rins and development rider Cal Crutchlow, again replaced by Remy Gardner at Silverstone.

“I was more like a test rider than a [race] rider during the last races, so at the moment, I prefer to focus also aဣ little bit more on trying ♌to be as fast as possible," Quartararo said.

"Because it's been a long time since I have not bee𒅌n using the same bike for at least two days in a row.

“It's not🌼 too many new items, it's too many different bikes. Four laps, change of bike. Four laps, change of bike. Time attack – but with which bike?” he said.

“Even 🦄last year, at the end of the season, we knew the bike was not so great, but we ke꧒pt our base and it was me putting the bike to the extreme limit. 

"And right now we cannot really do that, because I 𓂃have no idea where the limit of the bike is.”

After 10 of 20 rounds, Quartararo is 14th in the𝔉 world championship, with 49 points.

As at Honda, Yamaha’s new access to technical concessions (allowing engine design to be modified during the season) is yet to be converted into race r🎉esults, with Quartararo scoring 73 points for 11th overall at this stage of last season.

Likewise, Yamaha and Honda were tied on 93 constructors’ points after round ten last year, but have only 53 (꧅Yamaha) and 26 (Honda) this year.

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