Augusto Fernandez says Yamaha’s new V4 prototype wants “one thing else” after one other difficult wild-card outing on the Malaysian MotoGP.
Making its second grand prix look following September’s debut at Misano, the V4 confirmed modest progress however remained off the tempo of each the Inline M1s and rival V4 equipment.
Fernandez was a distant +25.412s from the winner within the Dash and +47.060s within the grand prix. At Misano, the gaps have been +27.893s and +61.504s, respectively.
The deficit to the slowest of Yamaha’s full-time Inline-powered riders was +7.7s (Alex Rins) within the ten-lap Dash and 21.9s (Jack Miller) within the double-length grand prix.
Lap instances: Malaysian MotoGP Dash podium, plus Yamaha riders
Lap instances: Malaysian MotoGP podium, plus Yamaha riders
The V4, which isn’t but working at most energy, additionally stayed on the backside of the top-speed charts, recording a better of 329.2 km/h, in comparison with 341.7 km/h for KTM’s Pedro Acosta.
The highest velocity of Yamaha’s Inline4 riders ranged from 333.3 km/h (Fabio Quartararo) and 336.4 km/h (Jack Miller).
“Tough weekend for us,” mentioned Fernandez. “We began the weekend worse than how we completed in Misano, so it felt like we needed to begin once more discovering what we would have liked to seek out the bottom once more.
“The optimistic factor is that with all of the work we have finished, we are actually on the identical level as how we completed the race in Misano.
“So I am struggling in the identical level, and the blokes, after analysing all the information throughout all of the weekend, we had the identical issues in Misano.
“We will say that the optimistic is barely this, as a result of we have now a transparent route to comply with not less than for the subsequent take a look at and the subsequent race in Valencia.
“However we’d like items, we’d like one thing else. As a result of we did every little thing we might with what we have now, [setting] smart.
“So not less than we have now a route to take, however we’d like the engineers now to work on new issues and comply with this route.”
After qualifying twenty third and final, Fernandez spent a lot of the race battling Ducati take a look at rider Michele Pirro, who overtook him within the closing laps.
The Yamaha take a look at rider’s subsequent V4 wild-card look is scheduled for the Valencia season finale.
