At the very end of the season, the generally discreet, if not secretive, Lin Jarvis, Yamaha's man in the Grand Prix, lets himself go into confidence. He has already recognized, thus blacklisting the Iwata firm, that Fabio Quartararo should have had a new, more powerful engine this year. But the latter was ultimately not approved because the Japanese never managed to make it reliable... Here is the rest, on the season of Fabio Quartararo and a certain Toprak Razagatlioglu, which is worth the detour...
Lynn Jarvis would like to empty his bag that he probably wouldn't do it any other way. The general manager of the official team Yamaha in MotoGP caused a sensation a few days ago by opening the sensitive file of the M1 engine. We now know with the Englishman why Fabio Quartararo still has mechanics from last season, and that doesn't put the skills of Iwata's engineers in a good light, who even find themselves almost out of the picture for the 2023 project, on which a European company is working hard...
A situation which leads to this admission of Lin Jarvis : " we didn't expect Fabio to have such a big lead in the first half of the season » we read on motorsport total. " We knew he was a great talent and capable of getting the most out of the bike. But we thought he would have more problems » he adds before concluding with what seems like a compliment to the Borgo Panigale firm: “ Ducati already had a very competitive bike in 2021. And having eight bikes with five or six fast riders in each session gives a lot of information. The bike has very good electronics, it is very advanced from an aerodynamic point of view and also has a very powerful engine. It's the most balanced bike on the board. ».
Lin Jarvis: “ we should have offered Toprak Razgatlioglu the place in the factory MotoGP team«
We will recall that Yamaha will only have two motorcycles on the starting grid in 2023 and only one with a rider who has largely proven his competitiveness, i.e. fabio quartararo. We are therefore far from the contingent Ducati and that inevitably raises questions about the choices made within the tuning fork brand. Starting with that of Franco Morbidelli…And this is where the other confidence of Lynn Jarvis... " we should have offered Toprak Razgatlioglu the place in the factory MotoGP team in July 2021”.
Then he explains: “ but his mission was to win the Superbike World Championship before thinking of other options and alternatives. And there was no guarantee that Toprak would come to MotoGP surpassing Franco Morbidelli or anyone else. I am convinced that Toprak has enormous potential. We have a lot of respect for him. He tested our MotoGP but we couldn't do it very thoroughly ».
Lynn Jarvis finished : " Morbidelli was a promising option for us. In 2020, he was runner-up for our customer team with three GP victories. So we chose it. But it hasn't worked satisfactorily so far ". For the Italian-Brazilian, the warning shot was given. For the Turk, and because he signed for R1 in WSBK until this deadline, he must now focus on the 2024 season if he plans a future in MotoGP. At the house of Yamaha or elsewhere…
