Yamaha’s hardest weekend of the season ended with all 4 M1 riders behind the sphere throughout Sunday’s Austrian MotoGP on the Purple Bull Ring.
The one comfort was a single world championship level, with Fabio Quartararo ending fifteenth and 25 seconds behind race winner Marc Marquez’s Ducati.
Manufacturing facility team-mate Alex Rins was 5 seconds additional again, adopted by the Pramac Yamaha pair of Miguel Oliveira and Jack Miller.
Miller, who crossed the road 18th and final, 37.5s from Marquez, concluded that the M1 is essentially incompatible with the particular tougher development rear tyre wanted for the intense stop-and-go Spielberg structure.
Yamaha “merely doesn‘t work with this rear tyre”
Jack Miller, Alex Rins, Miguel Oliveira, 2025 Austrian MotoGP
“There‘s not a lot to say after a really, very troublesome weekend for all of us,” mentioned Miller, who held sixteenth within the early levels earlier than fading to final by lap 17 of 28.
“It‘s disappointing, to say the least. I felt good for the primary 5 laps – and by ‘good’, I imply the grip was acceptable.
“Nevertheless it was the form of grip we must always usually have on the finish of a race, not firstly. And right here, we by no means had that degree in any respect.
“It‘s fairly clear on paper that this weekend our bike merely doesn‘t work with this rear tyre and its development.
“There‘s simply no approach to make it work. I attempted the whole lot I do know, from short-shifting to being tremendous affected person on the throttle, simply looking for a approach to defend myself.
“However when you attain round 120 km/h, when the momentum ought to be sufficient, we begin dropping load on the rear, the bike spins like loopy in a straight line, and there‘s nothing you are able to do about it.
“The entrance finish of the YZR-M1 is phenomenal, however the rear is the limitation. We have to work exhausting to know the way to enhance it.”
Whereas the consequence was demoralising for Yamaha, Quartararo did not less than enhance on his 2024 Austrian MotoGP time by a giant 18.7s, with Rins 7.4s quicker than final season.
Miller himself lapped 6.8s faster than he managed for KTM final 12 months, though Oliveira was 3.1s slower than on his approach to twelfth for Trackhouse Aprilia.
For comparability, Marc Marquez’s race-winning efficiency was nearly similar to final season, being simply 0.167s faster than Francesco Bagnaia managed in 2024.
