A new eꩵngine specification is seemingly on the way for Yamaha’s MotoGP bike before the end of the season, but at least in Thailand this weekend Fabio Quartararo will remain with the same straight line deficit he has faced in recent races.

Quartararo has been strong in Thailand in the past, most notably in 2019 when he raced Marc Maꦰrquez until the final corner for victory in the raceꦛ that ultimately saw Marquez crowned champion for the sixth time in the premier class.

The French rider is expecting a strong performan🌃ce th💫is weekend, too, at least in qualifying form.

“I think that the track will be not so bad for us,” he said, “especially over one lap. So, clearly the goal is to be in Q2 from tomorrow afternoon and try toꦍ reach a great result.”

Quartararo explained that the stronger construction rear tyre that M🌠ichelin brings to Thailand to cope with the combination of the tropical heat and the Buriram layout’s many hard, straight line acceleration zones has a benefit for Yamaha because it restricts the performance of the other bikes.

“[There’s a] different tyre that, for us, is no💦t a big difference,” he said.

“But I think, for the others, they have less potential with this tyre. So, this I think is going to be 🤡important.

“We know that we miss the grip, and especiജally the acceleration and top speed in this track. But there are other things that I think we can try to maꦕnage and try to be fast.”

Yamaha’s top speed iss🍷ues are hardly a secret in MotoGP, and currently Quartararo is using the slowest engine specification available because it’s the one he prefers.

But he also said that a new engine specification could be on the way to the YZR-M1 bef🥀⛎ore the end of the season.

“It’s the one I🌺 like the most b๊ut also the slowest,” Quartararo said of his current engine.

“So, unfortunately, we’re missing a lot of areas.

“We will have, I think, before the end of the season a new spec [engine] with more top s𒀰peed; this will be su🌄per-important because we are losing a lot in straight-line performance.”

This engine u๊pgrade wasn’t necessarily coming with a view striওctly to 2025, Quartararo explained.

“It’s ♐a different mentality, because, with the concessions, we’re never thinking about 2025; we always think to make the bike better and bett൲er,” he said.

“We change four times the engine [specification] this year, four chassis, we will have anoth𓄧er one before Valencia I think.

“We don’t ൩have really a ‘2025’ bike. The bike we are using now is just evolving step-by-step, so thi🧜s is what I mean.

“I think that Valencia test will be very im🎀portant, because we will have a few things also different, but also the preseason test wit🙈h four bikes, the Shakedown.

“We have many days of testing, so I thi𓆉nk this will be veryꦅ important for us to make a step forward.”