Looking closely at some of the times recorded during the last French MotoGP Grand Prix, there is reason to have low morale within certain teams. Take the case of Yamaha. While the new M1 is equipped with a more powerful engine so demanded by Fabio Quartararo, the Frenchman was 0,687s slower in qualifying at Le Mans than he had been in 2022. Worse, the Frenchman's race time over the same 27 laps was also 14 seconds slower than last year. A situation which reminded Joan Mir of another from the blessed days when he rode a Suzuki. Because since he’s been on a Honda…
And in fact, since he is driving an RC213V, it is better not to compare the times from one year to the next at Le Mans. crash.net did so to reveal that he had been 0.867s slower in qualifying on the Honda that with the Suzuki, his former teammate in GSX-RR but still a brand companion at Honda Alex Rins making it down to 0.982s.
Joan Mir: “ nowadays in MotoGP, when you improve a part, you make another weak point »
More fabio quartararo is still at home Yamaha , with an M1 supposedly faster and more advanced… Joan mir attempts an explanation: the Yamaha, I don't know why it's slower, but when you make the engine more powerful you may lose in other areas ».
A phenomenon he speaks about with full knowledge of the facts: “ it happened with the Suzuki. From one year to the next we improved the top speed, but then we had difficulty stopping the bike. Normally nowadays with this equality between bikes, when you improve a game, you make another weak point ". An observation validated both by Lynn Jarvis a pair fabio quartararo who even admits to having returned to 2021 settings with a 2022 chassis and a 2023 engine.
