This season, like the two previous ones, the official Yamahas are only creating an illusion. The start of the 2019 financial year was not bad until the landing in Europe where things went from Charybdis to Scylla. The biggest disappointment was the last Italian Grand Prix which we do not hope to be the start of a bad series. That being said, it's not just about the bike. Let's take the case of the start of the race Maverick Vinales...
Maverick Vinales, in recent years, has never seemed to be a lightning strike at the start of the Grands Prix. This chronic problem has often led him to waste very good races by only waking up in the last part of the event.
However, if someone wanted to attribute this problem to Yamaha, the data would immediately contradict them. As indicated on the site Tutomotoriweb, Casa Particular in Viñales reportedly lost as many as 66 places in the opening round in 2015 to Suzuki and 39 in 2016 while riding for the same team.
In the first year at Yamaha, he only lost, so to speak, 33 positions against 15 gained. In 2018, where ranks lost were 50 compared to 2 gained. In 2019, after only 6 races, there are already 16 positions lost at the start compared to only 1 gained.
In total, in these 4 championships and 6 MotoGP races, Maverick Vinales lost 204 places in the first round and gained only 31. So it's clear that the Spaniard needs to improve a lot in this regard. Indeed, this problem weighs heavily on the performance of the Spanish driver who has already tried to make some modifications to the starting system this season.
