Monster Yamaha arrives in Qatar aiming to build on signs of progress at the Circuit of the Americas, where 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo delivered a season-best sixth💎 in the Sprin🍨t - the top non-Ducati finisher.

Sunday’s chaos then left the Frenchman tenth on a ‘hybrid’ bike, but Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller flew the Yamaha flag with fifth place.

🐬That again made Yamaha next-best behind Ducati, as Miller also took the M1’s best GP result since 2023.

"In Doha, we can pick up where we left off in COTA in terms of performance, which was actually quiဣte decent,” said Monster Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli.

“Without the sighting-lap crash and the other mishaps [for Quartararo], we would have been able toꦓ get a better result.”

Quartararo and Yamaha will now hope the revised bike set-up will deliver at𒀰 Lusail, where the Frenchman expects hot temperatures and a ‘long’ main race.

"Lusail was usually the first track [of the sea🎃son] but this year the order changed. Because of this, it feels like we haven't been here in a long time, also because we had no test her🌞e in the pre-season,” Quartararo said.

“We know that we can expect higher temperatures than during last year's GP, because this time we are visiting in April. I expect it will be a hot GP weekend and a long race, 🥂but I'm looking forward to it.

“We didn't get the 🧸results we wanted in Austin, but we did see some positives, especially in the Sprint. So, I'm looking forwa♈rd to trying again this weekend, though I know the competition will be tough."

Team-mate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Rins is still seeking a top ten finish, ඣclai♏ming eleventh in the last two GPs.

"We are still in the process of finding the ideal set-up,” he admitted. “We'll keep working on that,ꦗ starting from where we left off in Austin.

“Qatar will be a high-[tyre]degradation track, so we'll need to keep an eye on that, but I'm read🌠y and motivated to keep working on it."

COTA "confirmed the improvement"

Meregalli is confident that Yamaha now has 𓂃a base to build upon as it seeks to rise from fifth and last in the constructors’ standings.

“The Americas GP has confirmed the improvement of the performance of the M1. So, we are starting the Qatar GP🐼 motivated to build on this base,” he said.

“The Lusail track is not bad for the characteristics of our bike, so we think we can contin❀ue the tren꧅d."

Yamaha sta🤪rts Qatar five points behind Aprilia in the constructors' standings, six from KTM and eight points from Honda. 

However, Ducati, unbe♛aten in a Grand Prix for over one year, is already a massive 75 points clear ༺of Honda.

Yamaha is the most successful manufacturer at Lusail wi🐷th 10 MotoGP wins for four riders: Valentino Rossi (2005, 2006, 2010, 2015), Jorge Lorenzo (2012, 2013, 2016), Maverick Viñales (2017, 2021/1) and Fabio Quartararo (2021/2).