Yamaha have insisted that they need more time to turn around their MotoGP slump, after a drab season-opening race.

The Japanese man🐻ufacturer entered 2024 with an air of positivity after the additions of Ducati engineers Massimo Bartolini and Marco Nicotra.

The🌳y also had extra preseason testing time as part of the new concessions rule,ꦓ which will aid their development all year.

But at the Qatar MotoGP last weekend, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo (11th) was🔯 the best-placed Yamaha or Honda rider.

His Yamaha team🍃mꦕate Alex Rins, on his race debut since leaving LCR Honda, was 16th.

"We have changed things, now we rea𒀰lly know what we want to do, where we want to go, but it takes time," Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha team boss, was quoted by .

"We are not magicians.

“We know what needs to be done, and it takes ti♏m✃e to get there.”

Quartararo, whose contract expires at the end of this year making him among the mos📖t high-profile riders available to rivals, offered a glum reaction to the Qatar MotoG♛P.

His team boss reacted to his star man’s disappointment with a bluntly hones🦩t assessment of Yamaha’s limitations.

“Fabio did 𝐆what he could for the moment,” Meregalli sai𓆏d.

“We are realistic. We had already seen what we could do here two weeks ago, during𒉰 testing, when we did the race sim𒈔ulation.

"We already saw the level.

"Of course we are not happy, we are realistic and 𒐪ꦺobjective.

“We have listed what we have to 🎀ꦍdo, but it takes time.

"Fabio works well and tries꧋ to be calm, he understands the situation.

“Maybe he was very n🤪ervous and disappointed at the beginning of last year.

“Now he has realised that this is the situation.”

Quartararo was the 2021 MotoGP cꦉhampion and only failed to win back-to-back titles on the last day of the 2022 season.

But Yamaha’s downturn started midway thr𝐆ough 2022 and worsened severely last year.

Mereไ💦galli is bullish that they can return to competitiveness.

"🐻We are progressing, we have improved top speed, aer🅺odynamics, and we have to achieve this to continue progressing,” he said.

“We have a lot of work to do.”

Meregalli reacted to Quartararo finishing 11th and Rins 16th in Qatar: "I am dis🌠appointed, yes, but satisfied because we have done what we could.

"We hꦰave collected data, we progressed after the sprint race, because we had a degradation problem. It was still happening on ꦍSunday, but less.”