It's official. Yamaha is now experiencing its longest-ever win dro𝐆ught in MotoGP, having gone 23 races since Valentino Rossi's victory at last year's Dutch TT.

Yamaha's 1997-1998 losing streak was exceeded at Aragon on Sunday, when Rossi finished as the top Yamaha after riding f🥀rom 17th to eighth.

Asked what importance the 23rd successive defeat might have, Rossi suggested 🔯it could help jolt senior management into🐲 action.

"I hope that it's important for Yamaha to react. So maybe some top guys see the number, and ask, 'whꦅy?'" Rossi replied.

In terms of the kind of reaction Rossi is seeking, he previously said Yamaha needs to repeat the effort made w👍hen he first joined the team in 2004:

"When I arrived a long,🐻 long time ago in 2004 Yamaha was a lot worse than now. But in one year they reacted very strongly. They put different organisation, they put morওe money, more people and in one year we were able to make the 2005 M1 that is for me the best M1. So we have to try the same."

Meanwhile, after his worst dry qualifౠying since 2006 at Aragon on Saturday, some big set-up changes allowed Rossi to at least get back into the top ten in the race.

"In the end, the race is not so bad for me. I can keep a constant pace and take some points. I can make a top 10, which yesterday I wasn't sure I could do𓆏. This is our potential now."

Winner of a record 89 premie🌠r-class races, Rossi finished 15sec from vict🦩ory, with team-mate Maverick Vinales a further 7sec behind in tenth place.

Worryingly, Rossi completed the 23 laps🐟 onl💜y one-second faster than last season, when he was making an early return from a broken leg.

But the top Honda of race winner Marc Marquez was ten-seconds faster t🀅han last year, top Ducati of runner-up Andrea Dovizioso almost 12-seconds faster and top Suzuki of third place Andrea Iannone 30-seconds faster.

"It's a very difficult s🍎ituation, because it's been one year that we are in this⛎ technical situation," Rossi said.

"And also ou🧸r opponents - especially Honda and𒀰 Ducati, but today also Suzuki - did a big step.

"I am a little bit faster than last year in the race, because last year I wa๊s injured and this year I'm in good shape.

"The problem is that laඣst year I finished fifth and this year I finished eighth, but Márquez and Dovizioso are like ten seconds faster. They made a big step.

"So in this situation, because we are a top team, it's difficult to find the moti🦹vation to fight maybe 🐟for the top 10."

The Doctor has l🌟ong made clear Yamaha must step-up and improve the M1 so that it can extract maximum performance from the Michelin rear tyre.

"The problem is not the tyres, because the tyres are the same for eve✤rybody," Rossi emphasised. "Honda and Ducati are able to go 10 seconds faster than last year with the same tyres.

"But our problem is the tyres, because for some reason we are not able to make the rear tyre work in a proper way. So our bike doesn't ✤take the maximum grip from the rear tyre, and we stress too much the tyre in a bad way, and at the same time we are slow.

"So, we are slow and we stress the tyre. This is the problem, but it's a Yamaha problem, because the tyres are the same for everybody. It looks l꧅ike the other factories work better in𒊎 this way."

Rossi believes the solution will be a mix of electronic and eng♔ine improvements but is yet to see any significant progress in either area.

"I tried [in testing] the first edition of the 2019 engine, but I think and I hope that it's not the 🦩final engine," he said. "It's just a small modification, because it's very similar.

"I hope that they continue to work because,&nbs📖p;for me, the engine is a problem for us, they have to make it better."

Anꦺd when was the last time Yamaha made a big step with itsꦓ MotoGP bike?

"It was in a test🐬 h♈ere in Aragon in 2015. This was the last time. It was still with Bridgestone tyres. We did that test in June and after I won in Assen."

Despite being absent from the podium for the past four races, Rossi remains third in the world championship, 15 p🌱oints behind Dovizioso and 87 from Marq༒uez.

Rossi has got a 28 point gap over Jorge Lorenzo, who fell for the second race in succession, while Vinales is equal on point♐s wi🦩th his fellow Spaniard with five rounds to go.

Yamaha MotoGP Group Leader & M1 Project Leader Kouji Tsuya 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:apologised to Rossi and Vinales for the lack of acceleration⛄ performance after qualifying at August's Austrian Grand Prix.