Yamaha boss Massimo Meregalli says the struggling Japanes✱e manufacturer “started seeing some light” after the 2024 MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix amid “the longest seas🦋on ever”.

Ha𒆙ving slumped down the o♏rder in 2023 from being title contenders the year before to occasional podium finishers, 2024 proved to be Yamaha’s lowest point in the modern MotoGP era.

It failed to score a single podium for the first time in the four-stroke era, while i🐻t managed just 124 points in the constructors’ cꦗhampionship compared to the 196 it achieved in 2023.

But Meregalli belie🍎ves Yamaha from the Aragon GP has started to turn things around.

That holds some merit when taking into 🐓account Yamaha’s best grand prix result of the year coming in the penultimate round of the 💞calendar in Malaysia, when Fabio Quartararo rode to a strong sixth place on the M1.

“For sure it ha💙s been the longest season ever, but I really like the effort t🌸hat all of us put in this season,” Meregalli told MotoGP’s official website.

“We never gave up, especially after Aragon we started seeing some results of this work that we have been 💧doing up until then.

“It’s rewarding bec✅ause when you work hard and you don’t see any results, things become even more heavy and tough to handle.

“But, starting from Aragon we started seeing some light that wꦡe could also maintain.

“Mainly, I have to say, the aerodynam😼ics engineers really wo🐽rked hard and the riders really started understanding how the aerodynamics worked when we did it back-to-back.

“So, when we went back to the fౠirst steps of aerodynamics they really understood the benefit of the latest aerodynamics.”

Despite its lack of results, Yamaha has looked like a manufactureꦏr strengthening itself in 2024.

It managed to secure 2021 world⭕ champion Quartararo to a new two-year contract, while ♛also extending Alex Rins to the end of 2026.

Yamaha snared teams’ world champions Pramac from Ducati as a satellitꦚe partner for 2025, while✃ new technical boss Max Bartolini has been able to get the Japanese brand to alter its approach to development.

This has been made most clear by the revelation that Yamaha is w♔orking on a V4 for the first time.

Reflecting on 2024 further, Meregalli heaped p﷽raise on Quartararo.

“Fabio is♈ one of the gu🐻ys who puts a lot of effort in and also he tried to adapt himself,” he added.

“When you have to change the way y🌊ou have to ride the bꦛike, it is not easy.”