Rossi and Viñales, behind in the Rep. Czech, can they improve the Yamaha ?
Difficult recovery for Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales, who attack the second part of the MotoGP season in sixth and tenth positions in the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic. Official Yamaha riders still stumble over the M1’s lack of grip…
Valentino Rossi, Yamaha-Monster (7th in qualifying and 6th in race) : "Starting the race at 2pm would have been very dangerous: the first and the last corner were completely wet, but everyone would still have started on slicks. So I asked if it was possible to delay and I think that it was the right choice: in the end, we had a real completely dry race ".
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“Of course we are not happy to finish 6th, but I was able to ride the bike better and it was not that bad on the corner entries. The guys in front were certainly faster, but it was better than during the last races. We have things to test on Monday (during the post-GP tests, editor’s note), including a new engine specification for 2020. As always, it will be an important test ".
Maverick Vinales, Yamaha-Monster (9th in qualifying and 10th in race) : "We lost a lot of grip compared to the warm-up, as it often happens with our bike. This is something we need to improve, because the Yamaha is very sensitive to the slightest change in the weather.".
"Tomorrow, during practice, I don’t want to start thinking about 2020 already: it’s too far. I want to be ahead in Austria, so it will be an important test to improve the bike for next weekend".
Site analysis : New disappointing results for Rossi and Viñales, respectively dropped 9.083 sec and 16.558 sec from the winner on a circuit which is supposed to be favorable to their Yamaha. Enough to bring out the usual frustrations for Italian and Spanish…
"The problem is that we are slow in a straight line, the fault of the acceleration behind the other bikes," Valentino Rossi tirelessly repeats. "For this reason, it is difficult to overtake under braking because we are too far from it: Maverick, who started further than me, encountered the same problem".
The Italian is all the more bitter as the Czech track has sentimental value in his eyes since he won his first victory there in 1996 and his first world title the following year. Successes which are stubbornly denied to him almost a quarter of a century later…
"The sudden rain before the start gave us a hard time, because these are the conditions in which we suffer the most," said team manager Massimo Meregalli. "Vale was feeling better in the afternoon compared to this morning. For Maverick it was quite the opposite."…
It is indeed a new cold shower that Maverick Viñales took, he who approached the recovery in Brno convinced of having finally found the right manual for his bike following his victory in the Netherlands followed by his 2nd place in Germany. His harsh words on arrival reflect all his disappointment…
Viñales refuses to test the 2020 M1 !
"It took me seven laps to overtake Franco Bagnaia, yet a second and a half slower per lap," laments the Spaniard. "The Yamaha does not work when the grip is lacking: when it rains and it dries, our bike loses everything".
The n ° 12, beaten by Fabio Quartararo on his private M1, even plans not to try this Monday the new engine version brought by Yamaha to prepare for the following season. "The 2020 motorcycle is here, but I will not try it", he assured last night, pouting..
The reaction of Viñales is dictated by the regulations in force in MotoGP: the engines are sealed at the beginning of the year, and cannot evolve other than by electronic improvements. In other words: even if the 2020 4-cylinder turns out to be better, it is in 2019 configuration that the season will end..
For Yamaha, the hour is serious: Viñales and Rossi point to fifth and sixth places in the provisional with respectively 119 and 120 points behind the leader. Almost five victories behind a Marc Marquez as domineering as ultra-regular.
The title race has long taken a back seat to Iwata’s crest, who is now focused on improving this season’s bike by small touches by setting – hopefully – a real evolution for next year. . In short, like the previous year and the one before…
Is there a pilot on the Yamaha plane ?!
Problem: who in the official team will indicate the right course to the Japanese engineers? The question deserves to be raised because the two factory pilots certainly have great qualities, but also weaknesses: it is certainly no coincidence that the M1 has been skating both literally and figuratively for three seasons already. !
Maverick Viñales is thus undoubtedly fast and is one of the few able to stand up to Marquez. But Spanish is also irregular and fragile, alternating the very good with the mediocre without being able to explain why. Hence his comments, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes depressed…
Valentino Rossi, for his part, offers Yamaha more structured and coherent analyzes, drawing on his immense experience. But the forties does not have the explosiveness necessary to push the M1 into its last entrenchments, where the last tenths hide….
Lin Jarvis, director of the official Yamaha team, underlined it without ambiguity: "", specifying that the level of dependence of the Iwata crest on the n ° 46 was less than before..
- MNC of August 3, 2019 : Rossi will honor his contract with Yamaha in 2020
The whole challenge is to combine Viñales’ raw speed with Rossi’s analytical skills, as when the emulation between "Rossi-Lorenzo" made the M1 the benchmark bike and qualifying on the front lines frequently turned into victory..
Competitiveness totally forgotten since Yamaha has won only twice in a season and a half: at Phillip Island last fall and Assen in the spring, each time with Viñales. Rossi’s success meter remains stuck at the 2017 Dutch GP, 37 races without a win…
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