F𝓰abio Quartararo says 🤪Yamaha’s mentality change was the biggest improvement the struggling Japanese MotoGP marque made in 2024.

Yamaha is in the midst of a rebuilding phase as it went from fighting for the championship as recently as 2022 to s🗹uffering back-toꦗ-back winless campaigns.

A new ♐concessions system allowed Yamaha to continually update its engine across the campaign, with Quartararo noting that the marque was more willing to introduce new units as soon as they were available.

This broke with Yamaha’s traditional approach - and that of Japanese manufacturers in general - of only introducing new 🐎parts once they were fully refined.

A key part of this s🐎hift has been Max Bartolini coming in as technical director.

“Of course I expected it [performance gains] to be a little bit faster, but the ꦛfirst part of the season, more than the improvement of the bike was the way that we changed working was really important to changeౠ the mentality,” he said.

“And al๊so the concessions, I think, helped. When one engine was working, straight away in the next race we had it.

“We didn’t have to wait for the bike to be tested, to have the safety. If it꧃’s working, we put it.

“The first ha♏lf was like this and the second half I think we managed to get a great step in a few areas, especial🌺ly in the electronics.”

Asked by mahbx.com if it now feels like Yamaha’s old mentality is finally gone, he replied: 🦄“Yes. I mean, at least while I’m there it will be like this.

“If not, it will not be able to follow. But we just changed this year. So, it will follow the next years because we feel we made some small steps forwa꧑rd.”

Yamaha’s bi💫ke development has🅷 been given a boost for 2025 as it partners with Pramac to field two more factory M1s.

It will be the first time that Yamaha has ha🤪d a s🦩atellite team since the end of the 2022 season when RNF switched to Aprilia.