At Yamaha, it is therefore the Berezina. The project manager publicly presents his excuses for the weakness of its results, Maverick Vinales exploded in flight, Valentino Rossi is rather in cold anger and the general in chief on the ground Lynn Jarvis tries to keep all the pieces of the puzzle together. A crisis of this level in a MotoGP that advances at the speed of light will not be easy to resolve…
So much so that voices are already being raised to announce an ice age on the planet Iwata. This is the case of Charles Pernat who announces on GP One : " Yamaha lives the post-Furusawa era » notes the Italian observer, quoting the previous manager of the MotoGP program for the brand. A name so openly regretted by Valentino Rossi that holds the top spot. " Another era begins, where the audacity and inventiveness of engineers are sorely lacking ».
He pursues : " This is a real problem that will make this crisis last into next year because the gap with the competition will continue to grow. Rossi, in certain Grands Prix like Malaysia or Australia will be able to change the situation, but elsewhere everything will be complicated, especially since Viñales is in the wall ».
A very gloomy outlook for Yamaha to which Lin Jarvis refuses to resolve: “ we have a test planned in Misano, then another after Silverstone, in Aragon. We work to progress, but it is not easy. It is clear that we are behind our opponents and it is not easy to close this gap in the short term. I think it will be more for next year ". The countdown has begun…
