When for his ShakeDown MotoGP which has just concluded at Sepang, only 2 media outlets made the trip: GPone with 2 journalists including the boss, Paolo Scalera, and Crash.net with Peter McLaren.
However, these 2 media outlets have deemed it useful to inform their readers that various bans have been imposed by Yamaha, whether these are aimed at them or at the other teams present.
Thus, the other MotoGP teams were asked to stay in their box and not to go in front of the Yamaha box. As for the 3 journalists present, they were kindly asked to stay in the press room on the last day, effectively prohibiting them from accessing the pit lane and the trackside.
Circuit security (presumably sent by Yamaha, who rented track) say we cannot stand trackside or in pit lane today… We are prisoners of the media room!
Factories want secrecy but with 6 MotoGP test teams, 3 race teams and 5-6 SBK teams the track is busier than an Official test!
— Peter McLaren (@McLarenMotoGP) February 3, 2019
Either ! This must certainly be very frustrating when we have given ourselves the material means to attend this ShakeDown but, after all, it was a private test and the track was rented by Yamaha before being sublet to the other teams.
But, obviously, this cult of secrecy among Iwata's men only aroused the curiosity of all present...
What could Yamaha want to hide, 2 days before the first official MotoGP tests?
Public chat GPone, after photographing the M1s of Katsuyuki Nakasuga et Jonas Folger, an ultralight fairing is indicated and shown made from square-woven carbon (which we also notice on Aleix Espargaró's Aprilia) as well as more efficient cooling vents for the radiator and the electronic box positioned under the tank cover.
See this post on Instagram
Public chat crash.net, Peter McLaren informs that the M1 which fell was particularly observed by the men of Suzuki and published a photo in which, unfortunately, it is difficult to say whether they are new fins or aerodynamic elements deformed by the fall. We will still note that the rear part of the fairing, visibly broken, is in a slightly strange way, as if crumbled.
In either case, this is certainly not the scoop of the century and Yamaha will therefore have succeeded in preserving its secrets, if there were any to be seen...
Things will “get back to order” from next Wednesday, with a pit lane full of photographers with indiscreet lenses during the tests, official this time, MotoGP.
It was 'Yamaha Bike 2' that had a fall, the Folger machine has been using.
#SepangShakedownTest #MotoGP pic.twitter.com/aVXgJDilcG
— Crash MotoGP (@crash_motogp) February 3, 2019
