Yamaha is taken seriously the promise to Fabio Quartararo to tie his renewal to 2024 and before starting the last GP of the Cheste campaign, Cal Crutchlow, his official tester and rider of the MotoGP RNF Yamaha, who replaced Andrea Dovizioso from Aragón, Yamaha’s fourth engine evolution will be tested in Jerez for 2023.
“Everyone knows where we have to improve: power. In power, I think we can have the best bike in the paddock, but I think Yamaha knows where they have to work. I ask for very important things . Then, if they don’t show what I’m asking for, unless they try and make some progress, that’s good. But if I see them going in a completely different direction, it could affect my future at Yamaha “, the 2021 world champion slipped while his The manager Eric Mahé is in full negotiations with Lin Jarvis, the person in charge of Yamaha Motorsport. In June, they announced that they had hired the services as a consultant of Luca Marmorini, the former head of Ferrari’s engines and who in recent years had collaborated with Aprilia’s engine development.
And the Misano Test in September gave the first indication that a step forward had been made with the premiere of the first version of the 2023 engine of the ‘Marmorini era’. “I am excited that we have confirmed that the engine offers good progress,” said Quartararo after setting the fastest lapping time below the outright track record (1’31.054).
But Crutchlow also admits that Yamaha hasn’t quite found the direction it wants to go. So far it has tested four engine evolutions for 2023, and its private test in Jerez is important to try to decide which path Yamaha wants to follow and what they will start to track at the IRTA test in Cheste in November 8.
“We have tested four engine evolutions. So it depends on which one we think. The direction to go is that we need more power and more top speed, for sure. But I don’t think we need to. We need to change some other things. And that can’t be done in a week,” Crutchlow explained to the championship website.
“So we have what we have for now. We try what we have now and then we will see for next year. We have to be able to build a bike that we can ride with other riders and fight with other riders because again, as I said before, let’s go alone. Whether it’s the engine, the chassis, the grip of the bike, then slow down on the straights. It’s hard to manage when you’re with another rider, it’s really hard.”
“Fabio, every time he won this year, he rode alone. We had to ride with other riders, but in the second lap of the race, the pressure on my front tire was very high and I thought, ‘this is going to be a long career.’ And then I just had to manage it until the end.”
After his test in Jerez, comes the final round in Valencia and there, his factory mate, Fabio Quartararo, he still has a chance to keep his crown. In this regard, the British commented that “Fabio did a great job today. He did what he had to do, which was to stay in the fight. All the pressure falls on Bagnaia, not on Fabio, he just has to go and try to win the Valencia That’s all he can do.”
Source: La Verdad
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