A new Yamaha fairing was a “surprise” addition to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo’s Yamaha M1 at the British MotoGP.

Yamaha and Quartararo tested at Misano between the French and British Grands Prix, with a new fairing on the itinerary🦩 for the test.

Quartararo said on Thursday that he was not expecting to have the wings he tested in Misano available at 💮Silverstone, but the team gave him a “surprise” on Friday morning.

“The team told me we have a surprise, but it’s still not the full one,” the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Monster Energy Yamaha rider said after Prac♉ti🦩ce at the British Grand Prix.

“It’s a prototype, it’s not a carbon one. The weight is a꧟ bit heavier, but 🃏I felt it was an advantage and I wanted to use it.

“Also, Alex [Rins] didn’t really like it, so it ✱was easy to [decide] who 𝐆was going to have the aero.”

Quartararo a𝓰dded that the revised design helps with turning.

“Little bit better turning,” he sai♈d when asked how it helps.

“I♏t’s not a massive difference, but my feeling was like that, and my feeling matched the data, so we decided to homologate this fairing.”

The French rider also had a new sw🎃ingarm in the morning, but discarded it for the🉐 afternoon.

“Clearly only the mornin🌳g because the new [swingarm]🧜 was not working at all and I went back to the standard one for the afternoon,” he said.

“So I was🍸 only usin🉐g the standard one in the afternoon.”

In general, it hadဣ been a good Friday for Yamaha, w🌜ho had three bikes in the top-10 in Practice.

Q🦹uartararo said that the bike is 💮particularly strong over one lap, and that having two other Yamahas close to him in terms of lap time was positive.

“Especially on one lap it’s goo🔜d,” Quartararo said.

“I think in the🥃 past when we started in 2022 to get a little bit lower in the pace we were a little bit weaker, but now it looks like we start to be back on the one-lap pace, and we are working a lot to do 🍬the race pace a bit better.

“Hopefully we can find a solution for the race pace, even if here it’s quite okay♈.”

He added: “I’m feeling happy to say that Jack [Miller] is there, and Alex, and🉐 Miguel [Oliveira] who is step-by-step coming bac🐠k.

“Usually you never want your teammates to be close, nor🐠mally you want the biggest gap possible, but to see them every time closer and closer and more to the top is s🤡omething that I really like and something that we will have a lot of data to analyse.”

The reason for the recent upturn in one-lap speed – Quartararo comes to Silverstone having been on pole in the🉐 last two Grands Prix – is about consistency in the package.

“For me, it’s [one-lap speed improvements] the consistency that, since Qatar [...] we 🌼keep the same base and small modi🗹fications.

“Since Qatar we changed quite a lot the bike,” he clarified, “[but] only a few⛎ deta🌠ils and this was the difference, and has always been one of my strongest points to be on the limit for one lap.”

He continued: “The confidence⛄ is there and I think Jack, Alex, and Miguel are getting it also.”

Finally, Quartararo said ✤that a first-ever 1:56 was possible on Saturday, though not necessarily from him.

“I think🍌 tomorrow, if the weather is good, we will [lap in] the 1:56s,” he said.

“May𓂃be not me, but I think the lap time will drop to 1:56.”