Yamaha, Honda set for four Misano MotoGP visits: ‘I will ride with my eyes closed!’
Yamaha and Honda set fo🌌r private Misano testing as well as three official MotoGP events at the Italian track.
The creation of a second MotoGP round at Misano this year, combined wi♒th an offic🎉ial test in-between, means the premier-class grid will 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 of the concessions packag𝔍e.
“We will go to Misano straight after Austria [this weekend],” Yamaha’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo confirmed. “We have two days testing.”
Repsol Honda’s Joan Mir said: “We have: Misano test, Misano race, Misano test🌸, Misano ♈race! That will be interesting.”
The San Marino MotoGP will be held at Misaꦏno on September 6-8, followed by an official MotoGP test on Monday, September 9.
The ‘Emilia Romagna’ round, in place of Kazakhstan (itself pencilled in to replace India), has been addඣed on the weekend 🙈of September 20-22.
“After the second Misano race, I will [be able to] ride the track with my꧟ eyes closed!” Quartararo joked.
“But I think it's g🦹oing to be interesting to test in a lot of different places this [revised] engine.”
Quartararo has pinpointed handling as the maܫin area of improvement for the M1.
“The𒐪 handling of the bike in🌃 the past was our 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 are not stopping. There are many areas where we are struggling.”
Yamaha is seeking the right balanc☂e between adequate engine performance and cornering ability.
“Always when you look for one thing, you sacrifice something else♉,” Quartararo said.
“So for sure we will [ne♏ed to] sacrifice something to have better handl🌄ing.”
Meanwhile, Mir - expecting Honda updates, including a revised engine configuration, in Austria this weekend - feels Misano is not the ideal testing venue but good enough to gauge the effectiveness of new part༒s.
“Mi🐽sano is a particular track. The grip level is high, with st🌼op-and-go corners,” Mir said.
“ꦐTo try things properly you need a track like Sepang, ♔with long corners, a lot of spin.
"We can still try all the things, but [M﷽isano] is probably not the best [test] track.”
The run of flyaway races, outside of Europe, begins the weekend after the Emilia Romagna round with the Indonesian Grand 💃Prix at Mand🥀alika.
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