Yamaha confirmed that Andrea Dovizioso was among the many riders to first take a look at their V4 engine.
A non-public take a look at happened on Wednesday on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the place take a look at riders Augusto Fernandez and Andrea Dovizioso received their first style of the extremely anticipated V4.
After giving a teaser of the engine’s roar, Yamaha described trialling the V4 as a “performance take a look at.”
Andrea Dovizioso exams Yamaha V4 engine
Dovizioso, who Fabio Quartararo desires Yamaha to make additional use of, and Augusto Fernandez examined the V4.
However Yamaha are additionally bettering their present inline-4, crew boss Massimo Meregalli confirmed.
“The testing crew is busy creating each,” he stated. “The present bike [Inline-4] and the brand new bike [V4 engine]. With the brand new bike we’ve got performed solely a performance take a look at.
“We aren’t within the second to judge the efficiency. The manufacturing unit guys will take a look at this bike solely once we consider the efficiency is nice sufficient to really feel it, to know it.”
Yamaha’s take a look at in Barcelona was along with the official MotoGP Aragon take a look at on Monday.
Concessions guidelines enable Yamaha and Honda further days of testing to fast-track their enchancment.
“It’s all the time essential to check,” Meregalli stated. “You don’t have sufficient time for testing wherever, anytime.
When you see the ultimate race outcomes – we can’t say it has been constructive.”
Meregalli noticed a distinction between Yamaha’s efforts on the Aragon MotoGP this 12 months in comparison with 2024.
“But when we examine it to final 12 months? We completed with a niche of 39s, however [this year] was 19s,” he stated.
“The quickest lap final 12 months was 1.3s, [this year] was lower than 4 tenths. That is the place we’re monitoring the advance of the bike. Fabio did a very good lap time. I preferred how, on Friday we struggled, however on Saturday we received into Q2 to begin the race from the third row.
“We had some updates within the engine, simply little updates. We all the time discover set-ups that we can’t do in the course of the race weekend. The plan was longer than the time we had!
“Our approach to work is: in the event that they really feel no negatives, then it’s the trail we work with. It’s a matter of fine-tuning.”
