Game-changing new strength of Yamaha spotted in Buriram

Yamaha now have two major b🐻onuses heading into 2꧂025 season

Alex Rins
Alex Rins

Another new positive trait of the Yamaha was spotted at the MotoGP Buriram test.

Yamaha had already captu🀅red attention in Sepang when Fabio Quartararo went fastest on Day 1.

But ano🌺ther fresh attribute of their bike came to the fore in the past few dayꦬs.

“A couple of different members of manufacturers, and🍸 me, noticed that the Yamaha has made a big step🌱 on their starts,” Dorna’s Jack Appleyard explained.

“It sounds a♛s though they’ve got a new 🙈clutch system.

“It sounds similar to t✅he KTM. It really does scream, it wrings it neck off when it starts, then drives forward.

“The KTMꦜ is so impressive to watch, those things are rockets off the line."

'Good news' for Yamaha

“But the good news for Yamaha? Someone pointed out to me that it’s not j🌄ust one rider that has been able to perfect it," Appleyard said.

“All four riders, time and time again, the sample size is there, they have been 🥃ver𒈔y good off the line.

“That’s another positive for Yamaha. Although they haven’t set the world alig🔯ht on the timesheets like they did in Sepang, give them time🐻.

“I think it might come. There is sign of improvement there. If they can qualify well, which they have pro༺ven in Sepang, it looks like they cꦕan start well.”

Yamaha are the manufacturer who have really raised expectati🍸on during preseason.

After a drab two years, there is finally re♔ason to be optimistic.

ꦗAfter the addition of Max Bartolini as tech director, and the ongoing evolution of a V4 engine, Yamaha now enter a season with a✨ satellite team and two extra riders.

They recruited Pramac - then signed up Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira - who have MotoGP experience ♒of Honda, Ducati, KTM and Aprilia.

But can Yamaha turn their promi🃏sing preseason into meaningful results when the season beginsও on February 28 in Thailand?

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