Yamaha react to “uphill battle” after grim competitiveness at COTA
"We went out with a bike that we never used, and I think that's something good about being ꦐin the position that we are in now: we can try b🍎ig changes"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo was handed a reminder - if he ever needed it - that improving the Yamaha will be a long-term goal on Saturday at the Americas MotoGP.
Quartararo finished the sprint race 15th, and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins was 16th.
Only Repsol Honda’s Luca Marini was behind them🐼, of the riders who completed the sprint.
The writin♑g was on the wall for Yamaha as early as Friday.
They ended practice in 17th and 18t🎃h, with only the four Hondas going slower.
Despite the optimism in the camp over tying ♊Quartararo down to the best-paid contract in MotoGP, this weekend so far has been a harsh reminder of the competitivenes🌌s of their bike.
“After the tough Friday sessions, we knew thi♈s race weekend would be an uphill battle,” said team director Massimo Meregalli.
“Following a less than ideal start yesterday, we had a lot of things to try this morning, but we didn't have t🌺hat much time – just the 30-minute FP2 before qualifying.
“I♛n the end, Alex and Fabio qualified further down the starting grid than we would have l꧅iked, in P15 and P16, and we knew this would make the sprint and [Sunday’s] race even harder.
“We went into the 10-lap sprint with the objective to get 🅠some useful data, and we will make adjusꦅtments accordingly.
“We'lꦍl try the tweaked settings in [Sunday’s] warm up and hopefully this will pay off during the race.”
Quart♚araro said about his sprint: “I was behin♎d Alex Marquez, and I was faster in Sector 2 and 3, but he was faster in Sector 1 and 4.
“Every time I caught up, he pulled a൲way again, so I couldn't overtake him on the last✅ laps.
“That said, on every run we did this weꦍekend, we tried quite b꧒ig changes on the bike.
“Also, for the sprint race we went out with a bike that we never used, and I think that's something good about being in tಞhe position that we are in now: we can try big chaಌnges.
“I think that the way in which we are working is 𓆉good, even if the 🐼results don't reflect it. We are trying things we never did in the past.
“﷽[Sunday] we will try something new again in the morning, and if that gives us new ideas for the race, then we will try that.
“We don't have to be conservative in our current position, and trying different things is giv💃ing us a sense of direction to work towards, and this g🥀ives us positive ideas for the future.”
Rins, who won the 2023 Americas MotoGP with LCR Honda, reacted to his s𒁏print: “It was a very difficult sprint,ܫ even more so because I got involved in the problem that Marco [Bezzecchi] had at the start.
“Then, in the second corner, I went outside t🔯he track with hꦑim, and I was last.
“Then I tried to ride on my own and recover positions, I did some 🎃overtakes.
“It was hard. We were struggling in the second half🌟 of the sprint race.
“The last few laps, I was not feeling enough support🥂 on the front.
“We're checking why this is the case. I need to adapt and find out how to ride in a slightly different way to🔯 not have these problems.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering every🥀thing from American sports, to football, to F1.