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It had been more than a thousand days since Quartararo (and Yamaha) took a front row grid slot. Fabio broke the jinx today with the beleaguered M1 and its inline 4-cylinder engine, which seems destined for retirement soon. In fact, it is no mystery that Iwata is working on the new bike, which will have a V4, like the rest of the competition.
For Paolo Pavesio, the managing director of the Japanese manufacturer, the fact that the current bike will regain competitiveness is not a problem, but an advantage. He explained why in an interview granted to Sky TV, "the problems are grip and weight at the rear, in this our race to solve them we have an internal competition, between the inline 4 and the V4. We are not just developing a new engine, but a complete bike."
Yamaha is changing its philosophy, and to prove that the way is right, the new bike will have to be better than the current one.
"When it is more competitive, we will test it on the track," Pavesio added, not excluding that it could happen as early as this season.
"In 2025 we will race with the inline-4, but when the V4 is ready we will make wild cards," he said. He also did not rule out that the new bike could be handed not to the test riders, but to one of the official riders (so Quartararo and Rins for the in-house team and Miller and Oliveira for Pramac). Being able to have the concessions, in fact, there is nothing to prevent the riders from changing bikes during the course of the year. "I never said anything about test riders," the manager concluded.
