The opening day of the official MotoGP Sepang test saw🍎 a number of crashes, something which Yamaha’s Alex Rins put down to the windy conditions at the Malaysian venue.

Rins, who finished the opening day 14th overall after taking part in the second and third days of last weekend’s Shakedown test in Sepang, noted that, during that Shakedown, there were few crashes across the whole test – in contrast to the multiple falls seen on the first day of t🧔he official test.

The crashes included one for Raul Fernandez that ruled him out of༒ the remainder of the testꦉ with a fracture in his left hand, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🌳another for reigning World Champion Jorge Martin, who sustai♎ned hand and foot fr𝄹actures in a turn two high-side and has therefore also been ruled out of the second and third days of the test.

“Honestly, in the Shakedown we didn’t see any crash, or almost any crash,” Rins said after the first day of the official teꦫst in Sepang.

“I will [point] to the wind,ꦕ because it was a really strong wind.

“I was a little bit angry becauꦺse I only did 41 laps – if I was able to do 42 it would be nice.

“But I only make 41 laps and there was a lot of f💖ree time waiting for the wind to go down.”

Riไns went on to detail the areas of the track which were most affected𒆙 by the wind.

“The wind especially bad was turn four, turn five was quite strong,ཧ turn nine, 11, 13 after the change of direction where [Pedro] Acosta crashed – I don’t know if he crashed for the wind or not,” he said.

A change of Yamaha plans

Rins not only sugꦺgested that the wind was the cause of the quantity of crashes on day one in Sepang🀅, but also a change of testing plan for himself and Yamaha.

“Honestly, t🌱oday, this strong wi♊nd has changed a little bit the plan,” he said.

“In the Shakedown we were a🍌ble to test many thiꦑngs; a little bit setup, some new items like the chassis.

“The 𒆙result of the chassis in the Shakedown was not super-good, but Yamaha was able to do a step up on the chassis. So, today we were planning to test the new chassꦓis, modified a little bit, and then a new upper wing on the fairing.

“But we couldn’t for this wind.”

While Rins was limited by the wind, his team🍷mate Fabio Quart🌼araro had a different perspective on the conditions.

“There are 15 corners, and I think it the wind was disturbing me in four or five corn♔ers,” he said.

“So I think thꩲe other 10 you can know if [a new component] was better or not.”

In any case, Rins’ apprehension about the conditions led him to change his plan, and instead of testing new components from Yamaha he f𝔍ocused on tyres.

“We make a change on our plan and we test the Micheli﷽n [front] tyres, the three different Michelin tyres that they bring,” he said.

“It was three different types: one is similar to the soft [compound] that we have here, with another construction that was not bad; and then these next two were this different🌌 casing, different sized casingꦗ.”

Rins said that the two tyres with the different sized casing were the development tyres expected f🎐or 2026, while he was unsure if the third tyre would be raced in 2025 or not.

Looking towards the remaining two days of t🉐he test, the Spaniard is aiming to get his testing plan back on track.

“I couldn’t make so mꦍucꦏh work apart from that,” he continued.

“For sure, we hav🎃e two more days, I didn’t put any qualifying tyre to do a good lap time because it was not the ri๊ght moment, this is what we discussed with our team.

“Tomorrow we will test the chassis and also the fai𒁏ring, and let’s see if we can find something.”

Quartararo again was contrary to Rins, putting one new tyre at the end to aim ⭕at a lap time, one which, in the end, was marginally better than that he managed in Q2 at last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix: a 1:57.592 last November comparing against a 1:57.555 set on day one of this year’s test.

“I think it’s positiv༺e,” he said. “It’s better than being slower. Also we didn’t really focus on a time attack, so this is the positive that we were already [...] faster than the ♐qualifying.

“But I was feeling quite good; during qualifying you really focus on making th꧂e lap time and now we were just trying man﷽y things and put a new tyre at the end to try to make a good lap time.

“I think already riding for two days, two days of rest, and coming back of course it’s helping the lap time, but I think we di🌌d a good job.𓄧”