This Misano deadline will be important for the manufacturer Yamaha. After three meetings, divided between Brno and two successive meetings on the Red Bull Ring which could almost be described as a disaster, the Iwata firm must absolutely redress the bar on a circuit where it had seen four of its M1s in the top 5 of the 2019 competition. Otherwise, the clamor about a renewal of the organization, the method and the adoption of new life-saving features will have fizzled out. Moreover, listening to Valentino Rossi and Fabio Quartararo on the specific subject of a resting test team with Jorge Lorenzo, one wonders if disillusionment is not on the horizon...
However, for the moment, we remain in total incomprehension. Yamaha suffers from numerous ailments that deserved to be clearly identified by doing laps on a track with a fast test driver. We see with KTM, that this method of work bears fruit in the company of the quick and experienced Dani Pedrosa. Yamaha has in its workforce a Jorge Lorenzo who knows the M1 product very well. He is therefore best able to help. And yet, we let him lounge on his deck chair...
À Misano, Ducati, Aprilia, KTM and Suzuki took a closer look at the new track surface during a private test at the end of June. The testing team Yamaha with the five-time world champion Jorge Lorenzo missed the opportunity. Apart from a few laps at Sepang on the M1 2019, the Mallorcan has not done any more laps. Why is that ?
“Sometimes at Yamaha things are hard to explain”
« I ask myself the same question “, replied the World Cup leader fabio quartararo who completes his response as follows: “ I don't know and I don't understand. We know Jorge's potential on the Yamaha, I don't know why he's not riding. He did 20 laps at Sepang and that was it. All the test riders were there in June, but not Yamaha… I don't want to say it's a disadvantage, but it would be good if you had some feedback on the new tire. I don't know »….
Annoyance is not an isolated event. Valentino Rossi feels the same way: “ I have exactly the same question for Yamaha. I was very happy to learn that Jorge was our test driver. Because he is one of the best drivers in history on the M1. It can be of great help to us when we see what Dani Pedrosa has achieved at KTM in one year. I think he gave them a lot of good advice ».
« Sometimes at Yamaha things are difficult to explain. You have to ask them » declares the nine-time World Champion. “ In Misano we will have to start from scratch with the new asphalt and try to understand a lot of things, which the other teams did during the test. So it will be more difficult, I think ". At the house of Yamaha In the end, nothing would have changed...
