Alexꦗ Rns has revealed that after the Solidarity Grand Prix Yamaha “apologised” to him for not improving braking struggles he battled thr❀oughout the 2024 MotoGP season.

The six-time grand prix winner endured a difficult first year on the Yamaha, in which he scored just 31⭕ points down in 18th in 🌟the standings.

The biggest issue Rins faced on the M1 waꩵs a lack of rear contact while braking, which is a problem he say♈s Yamaha was never able to fix.

After what he described as “if💮 not the worst, one of the worst races of my life” at Barcelona in the Solidarity GP, he says Yamaha management apologised for 💃not fixing this problem for him.

“If I have to choose one, Yamaha needs to improve - for me - the braking🐭 and the entry,” he replied when asked after the post-season test what area he needs Yamaha to make a step in for 2025.

“They weren’t able to give me a bike this year t♚o be competitive in this area.

“I was struggling during all the races to have the rear contact and in the end when you don’t🧸 have rear contact you don’t stop the bike on braking side, it doesn’t matter the rest because you will go wide, or if I was able to stop the bike I overheated the front tyre and I broke the front tyre.

“After the race, I met with Max [Bartolini] and Massimo [Meregalli], I talk 🌼deeply with them and they apologised.

“So, I’m quite calm that they are wo💯rking on this, but also we need to improve the power of the engine, the electronics also.”

Yamaha had a busy test day on the Tuesday at Barceloꦇna, with both factory riders having three M1s in their garages.

Among the items to try, 🌊Yamaha had a new engine and chassis to test, as well as some new set-up ideas.

Rins was pleased with the new chass♎is, but feels like he is “not rꦬeady to have this power” from the new engine as it doesn’t match with his riding style.

“In set-up we did small steps, not all as I wanted, but after the ra🅷ce, talking with the engineers, they say that with the things that we are going to test it will not be a big change - it will not be zero to 100, it will maybe be five, 10💧% change,” he added.

“I tried something that I didn’t try during the GP we🦩ekend on set-up that makes my life a little bit easier riding the bike.

“Apart from that, Yamaha brought some new stu♋ff, like a new chassis, new engine, and I felt really good with this new chassis.

“I was able to hold more speed in the midd𓄧le of the corner. I was expecting the braking side to be better, but it was a 🍨very small improvement.

“And regarding the engine, it’s true that it’s more powerful on the straight, exiting🌼 from the corners, but at least with my riding style we are not re🧜ady to have this power.

“The bike was qui🤪te aggressive, spinning a lot, so w﷽e need to adjust the electronics for this engine.

“We didn’t work so much on the elect൲ronics, because we didn’t have enough time. We focused on the new engine, the new chassis, a little bit of set-up.

“For me, we꧂ were missing another engine 🐈to test with a different configuration inside. Maybe this was the fifth or sixth new engine I’ve tested.”