Alex Rins: Thai GP showed Yamaha made “very low step” with 2025 MotoGP bike

Yamaha’s stro🥃ng pre-season forꦰm didn’t translate to good Thai GP

Alex Rins, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Alex Rins, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 Thai MotoGP
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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins believes Yamaha has only made “a very low step” with its 2025 MotoGP bike com🅰pared to last 🐻year after it struggled at the Thai Grand Prix.

Ya🌸maha ended the pre-season as one of the surprise packages, but struggled to replicate that form at the openin♉g round of the 2025 campaign in Buriram.

Pramac’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller qualified an impressive fourth, but tumbled to 11th in the grand prix due to a loose fairing, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo faded fro𒆙m 10th to 15th as a result of a lack 🎃of grip.

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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miguel Oliveira was 14th on the sister Pramac bike, while Rins failed to score points in 1💃7th.

The lack of traction on the M1 that has been an issue for the past few years was seemingly accentuated at a ♕sweltering Buriram, with Michelin’s stiffer rear tyre carcass for the event not helping the Yamaha’s cause.

Rins says he was “at 100% every lap” duri⛄ng the grand prix, which made the final few tours “a mess to manage”.

“Looking at the performance, honestly compared to yesterday we did a step forward - a small step forwa🐓rd,” said Rins after Sunday’s race.

“I was able to reduce the speed of the bike, I was able to go into the corner in a better way compared to yesterday [in the sprint]; yesteꦺr𒆙day I struggled a lot.

“But for sure I w💟as at 100❀% every lap. So, the last four laps, in corner four I lost the front completely and from that point to the end of the race it was a mess to manage.

“It was really difficult for me, I was losing the front, the rear. A co🐷nsequence of going 100% every lap.

“For sure this is not the result the Yamaha riders wanꦿt to finish in. I mean, Jack finished 11th, four laps to the end I was 14th, Fabio 1𒉰5th, Miguel 14th, myself 17th in the end.

“It’s important ⛎to take all the info and analyse why and improve. This is the actu𒀰al mindset. Looks like we made a step from last year, but a very low step. So, let’s go for it.”

Rins warned that the expec✱ted low-grip conditions in the coming Argentina round will also likely pose an issue for the Yamaha.

“I don’t know. The level right ⭕now is this, at least in this track,” he added.

“Sure, we are going to 💛go to Argentina. It’s two years since we rode there, since ’23.

“For sure in FP1 we are goꩵing to struggle because in low-grip conditions w꧋e are ones who really struggle.

“Then let’ꦜs see where we ar꧃e. But for sure we need to see it, we need to have a meeting and see the points.

“In [thﷺe] Sepang [test], it was quite good, we did quite a good test.

“Here in the test, Fabio was quite fast but thi🔜s weekꦐend he couldn’t show the potential he showed on the test.

“So, it’s what I♏ 🍸say: we improved from last year, but very low. So, we need to keep working and we need to keep looking on the things to improve.”

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren

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