The managing director spoke in the last few days about the situation that the French driver experienced: “It wasn’t easy to tell him …” but also about the new 2023 engine, about Morbidelli’s very difficult situation (he gave a clear explanation) and also about the gap with Ducati, indicating, in addition to the engine, another delay of the M1
October 31, 2022
Lin Jarvis in recent weeks he has given several interviews in which he expressed many points of viewalso strongon the two pilots fabio quartararo e Franco Morbidelli It is on gap which still separates Yamaha and Ducati.
We have collected the interventions of the managing director of Yamaha. Jarvis, born in 1958, has been working for the Japanese company since 1993.
“Quartararo raced with the same power as in 2021”
Lthe first, very heavy affirmation concerns the reigning world champion. Quartararo lived a very difficult season, in the first part of the races in Europe, from Portimao to Sachsenring, he managed to accumulate a huge advantage over Bagnaia, + 91 points, only to lose him from the summer onwards.
Oriol Puigdemont says motorsport.com Jarvis explained the source of the problems Yamaha: “We had a reliability problem with the unity that we had to introduce in 2022 and which we were developing in 2021. Here because we could not approve it. There is no point in using a more powerful engine if it is not reliable“. In short Yamaha’s 2022 engine she has not never seen the light.
The worst part according to the Yamaha manager was having to tell Fabio: “The first problem we had to face was having to tell Fabio, world champion. This year he ran with the same power level as in 2021, and obviously he didn’t like it“.
Basically, while all the other bikes started from a base new and developable, Quartararo remained at the same level as last year. An incredible situation: “Fabio could have been much harder with us than he was, and we thank him for that” added Jarvis.
To convince the pilot to renewmore than the money, the guarantees to invest in the development of the bike were necessary: Yamaha signed the engine specialist Luca Marmorini which brought the new 2023 engine to the Misano test: Quartararo was positively impressed.
On the 2023 engine
Ithe test driver Cal Crutchlow Friday and Saturday he will be in Jerez, where he will still work on engine tuning: “We’ve been through four engine evolutions – explained the English driver -. There is still no clear direction. The final version may not be ready in Valencia. We need more power, more top speed. But we also need other things that are not achieved in a week “.
Quartararo in Australia (2022)
“Morbidelli has a mental block”
IThe managing director of Yamaha also spoke about the Italian rider, who has just returned from a season disastrous: “The knee injury was certainly difficult – Jarvis told a Speedweek – but that was mostly a physical ailment. He influenced Franky’s performance in the spring of 2021. When he joined the factory team, after the Misano operation in 2021, he was still too early. “
“We tried – he resumed – to reverse the course in the second half of this year and we changed the way we work in the pits a bit in the first two races after the summer holidays. The concentration, which at the beginning seemed to give its fruit, not necessarily in points, but we could clearly see the progress. “
On mental block by Morbidelli: “He had already done some races with the factory bike, he was used to the team, so we expected a much better season. But it was not so. The situation is difficult. It’s a mental thing. Franky has a mental block“.
Jarvis explained that Morbidelli “hasn’t enough security to ride in a really aggressive way “then adding that” each rider confirms: the Yamaha must be driven in attack mode. You have to take the speed with you in the corners and that’s what Franky is missing. “
Morbidelli in the Yamaha box
“The gap from Ducati? Unbridgeable at the beginning of 2023”
UAnother affirmation destined to cause discussion is that of the performance advantage Ducati has over Yamaha and that according to Jarvis it will not be filled in a short time: “Now we have no advantages over the competition – Jarvis told a Speedweek -. Ducati, on the other hand, has a powerful engine and has improved braking and cornering speed. The way we are now it is unlikely to be able to close the gap with the strongest bikes by the start of the 2023 season. “
According to Jarvis, these are the ones mistakes made by Yamaha: “We haven’t invested enough time, energy and effort in aerodynamics. Of course that’s not our biggest problem right now: we lack power in the engine. But aerodynamics and speed are related. If there is a good aerodynamic package, you can accelerate better, without cutting too much power. Unfortunately, when it came to aerodynamic development, we didn’t dare like Ducati and Aprilia. “
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