Yamaha, Honda set for four Misano MotoGP visits: ‘I will ride with my eyes closed!’
Yamaha and Honda set for private Misano testing as we🐷ll as three official MotoGP events at the Italian💞 track.
The creation of a second MotoGP round at Misano this year, combined with an official test in-between, means the premier-class grid wiꦯll make three appearances at the Italian track by late September.
But that will rise to four in the case of 💫Yamaha and Honda riders, who can conduct private testing as part o🍃f the concessions package.
“We will go to Misano straight after Austria [this weekend],” Yamaha’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo confirmed. “We have two days testing.”
Repsol Honda’s Joan Mir said: ꦇ“We have: Misano test, Misano race, Misano test, Misano race! That will be interesting.”
The San Marino MotoGP will be held at Misano on September 𒁃6-8, followed by an offic꧅ial MotoGP test on Monday, September 9.
The ‘Emilia Romagna’ round, in place of Kazakh🤡stan (itself pencilled in to replace ꦫIndia), has been added on the weekend of September 20-22.
“After the second Misano race, I will [be able to] ride the track with my eyes c🧜losed!” Quartararo joked.
“But I think it's going to be interesting to test in a lot of differen൩t places this [revised] engine.”
Quartararo has pinpo🐼inted handling as the main area of improvement for the M1.
“The handling of the bike in the past was o🦂ur strong point, now it is our weak point,” he explained at Silverstone. “And we have to come back a little bit in this area.
“Now our engine is faster but we are not turning, we aᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚre not stopping. There are many areas where we are struggling.”
Yamaha is see✃king the right balance beꦺtween adequate engine performance and cornering ability.
“Always when you look for😼 one thing, you sacrifice something else🌊,” Quartararo said.
“So for sure we will [ܫneed to] sacrifice something to have better handling.💖”
Meanwhile, Mir - expecting Honda🎉 updates, including a revi𝓀sed engine configuration, in Austria this weekend - feels Misano is not the ideal testing venue but good enough to gauge the effectiveness of new parts.
“Misano is a paꦅrticular track. The grip lev⛄el is high, with stop-and-go corners,” Mir said.
“To try things properly you need a track like Sep𓂃ang, with long corners, a lot of spin.
"We can stil🅰l try all the things, but [Misano] is probably not t𝓰he best [test] track.”
The run of fl𓆏yaway races, outside of Europe, begins the weekend after the Emilia Romagna round with the Indonesian🔯 Grand Prix at Mandalika.
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