Petronas Yamaha rider Franco Morbidelli experienced a nightmare last week during the Qatar Grand Prix, where he finished an anonymous 18th. An unthinkable position from a candidate for the title who was designated as one of the favorites for this first meeting of the season. A collapse that hurt. Here he returns to the scene of the defeat at Losail for the Doha Grand Prix. There is no question of reliving this situation and as he did not have a clear answer to his situation last Sunday, he decided to completely change everything on his M1 “A-Spec” version. The mechanics have work to do...
Great evils come with great means, they say, and Franco Morbidelli decided to do it again Yamaha in the box, to exorcise her from a curse that struck her during last Sunday's race. A terrible procession which sucked him to the back of the peloton. A real waking nightmare. Before finding the trail of losail from this Friday for free trials, the teammate of Valentino Rossi delivers his battle plan, which begins by making a clean sweep of this Qatar Grand Prix depressing: “ it is important to approach this second race in Qatar with the right energy and motivation. Although it's difficult after such a difficult race... But it's important to remove what happened last weekend and see this weekend as a blank canvas and attack as we are used to », underlined the three-time winner of the previous year.
Morbidelli didn't get an answer, so he changes everything
The " unexplainable problem » has not been completely figured out, but Franky is confident: “ we tried to analyze what happened last weekend. We couldn't clearly see any part or thing that was making us so slow in the race. We could see that there was a problem with the HoleShot device on the grid, but apparently it has been resolved. The device worked well during the race ».
« But my feeling was still bad and my performance was even worse. We will therefore replace any part that we are unsure about so that we can approach this weekend as a blank slate. The important thing is to see that these problems, which I had not only in the race but during the weekend, disappear » concludes the 2020 world vice-champion who must also maintain his confidence.
