The Australian didn’t mince words
The finishing order at the end of the United States GP was merciless: the four Yamaha finished in the last four positions, with Toprak Razgatlioglu winning the ‘Iwata trophy’ by collecting the first MotoGP point of his career.
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The Pramac rider’s teammate, Jack Miller, explained through very clear metaphors how it feels right now to be a Yamaha rider when it comes to opening the throttle for a long straight: “We are like lambs to the slaughter every time you have to open the throttle towards a long straight – Miller said as reported by the website crash.net – it always feels like the stickers are peeling off the fairing.”
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“We are working on it and trying to do our best – Miller added – we hope to be a bit more competitive at Jerez, in general I can’t wait to get to Europe because with races close together it should be a bit easier for us to bring updates to improve our performance.” Fabio Quartararo was very blunt in describing the situation, highlighting that the feeling is that Yamaha has no ideas on how to solve the problems currently affecting the M1.