Jack Miller’s first official style of the Yamaha V4 MotoGP bike on the post-race Misano take a look at left him Seventeenth-fastest after an “fascinating” day.
Pramac Yamaha’s Miller, plus manufacturing unit duo Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins, all rode the V4 YZR-M1 at Misano, after Augusto Fernandez gave the bike its race debut final weekend (12–14 September).
Miller says Yamaha is “on the suitable path” with its new bike, however admitted it’s nonetheless “very early days” within the new mission.
“It has been very fascinating for us to have the prospect to do the shakedown of the brand new Yamaha V4 bike,” Jack Miller stated after the Misano take a look at.
“It‘s been a very good take a look at to know each the sturdy factors of the machine and the weak ones, attempting to maximise the sturdy areas and enhance the weak ones.
“We’re on the suitable path: the bike is working properly, and in some areas we‘ve already made progress in comparison with this 12 months’s YZR-M1, so we’re getting into a very good route.
“Coming from the outdated M1, whose strongest level was nook pace, we are actually looking for a brand new stability by way of geometry, weight distribution, and all these facets.
“The bike is doing all the suitable issues, now we simply want time, as these are nonetheless the very early days of the mission.”
Pramac Group Director Gino Borsoi stated that being part of this new period for Yamaha in MotoGP was one thing the Italian squad might take satisfaction in.
“The sensation of this primary day with the YZR-M1 V4 prototype was good from the start, as a result of we’re ranging from a clean sheet of paper,” Borsoi stated.
“For us it is rather necessary to provide Yamaha some suggestions and our viewpoint concerning this new mission. We all know it will likely be an extended journey, however we’re very proud to be a part of this new problem with Yamaha.
“Ranging from scratch is necessary for Pramac Racing, as a result of we are able to put all our effort into growing the bike in the suitable means. The outdated YZR-M1 was already an entire bike, however with the brand new V4 prototype we are able to present Yamaha‘s engineers with our suggestions to assist them.
“Yamaha now has an enormous quantity of labor to do, and we’re able to do our half.
“At the moment‘s take a look at was necessary to start to know the route we have to work in. Jack‘s [Miller] feedback are already fairly clear: in some areas we‘ve acquired good suggestions and made enhancements over the outdated bike, whereas in others we all know there may be nonetheless lots to do.”
