#Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™

[waru-chan8]

The only way I'll accept the Mack to Honda and Fabio to Aprilia is if this lead to Joan to Yamaha, so Joan and Álex can be reunited (even wit Livio who apparently can return to the paddock?). I mean they are each other support teammate and they are in desesperat need of each other.

[42bakery]

Just entusians and hope that lead to nothing. Old regular Yamaha

Whatever technical changes the special livery brought, Yamaha should do it more often

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Los '100 Km dei Campioni', a punto con 8 figuras de MotoGP™

Los ‘100 Km dei Campioni’, a punto con 8 figuras de MotoGP™

Por supuesto, también estarán presentes cuatro discípulos ilustres de la VR46 Riders Academy como el Rookie del Año, Marco Bezzecchi (Mooney VR46 Racing Team), Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team), Franco Morbidelli (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) y Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team), recién coronado en la clase reina. Valentino Rossi estará presente en el evento, y también ha invitado a dos…

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#ValenciaGP raceday roundup: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3

#ValenciaGP raceday roundup: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3

MotoGP It was tense, it was close, it was emotional and it was a stunning finale for the 2022 season. As Ducati Lenovo Team’s Francesco Bagnaia took the crown with ninth place and Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) came home fourth, it was Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) who gave the Hamamatsu factory an emotional send off with a stunning final victory in blue. Brad Binder (Red Bull…

[waru-chan8]

i propose you Joan Mir, so w can have the Suzuki boys reunited and with Yamaha as their sponsor once again

i think what yamaha really need to start thinking about is who's gonna replace fabio in 2025 because that boy is gone

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Ο Quartararo ταχύτερος του FP3 στο τεστ του Misano - Αποτελέσματα

Ο Quartararo ταχύτερος του FP3 στο τεστ του Misano – Αποτελέσματα

Μόλις μισή μέρα απομένει στο Επίσημο Τεστ MotoGP™ Misano και ο ηγέτης του Παγκόσμιου Πρωταθλήματος Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) ανέβηκε στην κορυφή με 1:31.116 στην πρωινή συνεδρία FP3 την 2η Ημέρα, μόλις 0,056 δευτερόλεπτα διαφορά από τον ταχύτερο της 1ης ημέρες, Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team), ενώ ο Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) συνεχίζει να ανεβάζει τους γύρους.…

[waru-chan8]

There’s a bit more about it.

Let’s go back to when Vale and Mack where teammates. Vale wanted new stuff but refused to waste time testing it unless he knew it worked, so he dropped it on Mack’s lap every fucking time. Maverick was frustrated by this and Yamaha’s behaviour of displacing him in favour of Vale, but accepted it because it was Vale. This had consequences because it meant that Mack wasted so much time testing and doing stuff that he head no time to focus on himself, his setup and race things.

Then it comes Fabio. 

When Fabio moved to the factory team, Maverick expected to be treated as the 1st ride and have the upper hand over Fabio, but it turns out, Yamaha wanted a ‘the first rider will be the one to deliver’, and it wasn’t Mack. Also, when developing the bike, they wanted opposite things. Fabio wanted a 2019-like bike with more power and Mack was like ‘not that because it doesn’t work’ (there was something about Fabio having a 2019 but less power in 2019, so he didn’t suffer the problems that brought).

My understanding is that Mack and Yamaha situation got bad, and Mack blamed it fully on Fabio, and Fabio resents him for that because it was not his fault. So they just pushed in different directions and tension grow and Yamaha took parts (Fabio’s side) which made everything worse.

do we have any idea what happened between mavio? oh fellow mavio lover please tell me you have an idea 🥺

oh bestie....*pats seat next to me* we're really in it now aren't we..😭😭

okay there's definitely better ppl to ask this since I've only been here for a few months but I'll tell you what I think I know

disclaimer: a lot of the gaps of my knowledge (so a lot) are filled in with dramatic exaggerations and my own headcanons so don't take it too seriously

1. maverick comes into motogp with one championship under his belt (moto3) and a third place in moto2, from what I've gathered he'd been seen as one of the real next talents, I'm not 100% sure of the timeline but I know I've heard vale mention him as well as marc as someone who could be quick/has a lot of talent

2. he starts off at suzuki (with aleix), gets some good results even a win and a couple podiums and after two years moves to yamaha in 2017 after coming 4th in the championship im 2016

3. he fucking wins his first two races with yamaha, talk about an entry to a team. oh and his teammate was valentino rossi. enough said.

4. mav having a grand time at yamaha, finishing 3rd and 4th and 3rd again (2017,18,19) in the championship. then shit starts going downwards.

5. in 2019, fabio arrives on the motogp stage with the petronas yamaha. he has an amazing first season, getting like 7 podiums and finishing 5th overall.

6. 2020 (ooh getting spicy) so there's a lot of very friendly interactions between mav and fabio from this time, it really seems like they were good buddies, n then preparing to be teammates in 2021, being excited about it!! looking at results tho - even though fabio only finished 8th that year, he won three races, meanwhile mav got one win plus two second places - both behind fabio...

7. so going into 2021 the situation is basically - fabio, boy wonder replacing motogp legend and maverick - not quite being able to fulfill the potential ppl said he had, getting this new teammate, a fast young guy - [threatening music starts playing]

7. and then the season starts off not too bad for mav with a win but after that - forget it. mav getting worse, fab winning and winning and winning. mav starts thinking yamaha have clearly moved on from him and are backing fabio, casting him aside a bit (in his perception, I can't really speak on what really happened I simply wasn't present in the fandom and I've not dove that deep yet), and then ofc it culminates in the whole debacle with mav just having enough of the frustration and doing sth rash, leading to the yamaha fallout and him leaving the team - well being fired really - and going to aprilia

8. as far as I know, it wasn't this alone that broke mavio? I think fabio said sth to the effect of he doesn't really care about mav leaving the team, and then there's a mav quote I think of him saying he's surprised to hear that from fabio

9. and then ofc there's fabio on that podcast this year answering the question "who's the rider you have the worst relationship with" with maverick.

IN CONCLUSION I think a culmination of fabio riding high on success, mav spiraling and lashing out, all that lead to the sorta icy relationship they have now....*sob*

anyway at the bottom of this I gotta add these tags from vic @distinguishedfifty to lighten the mood bc I simply love them uwkfjfkd

if any motogp mutuals have more to add here or maybe wanna correct me on things pls feel free!!

[waru-chan8]

Romance made in heaven

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Catalogue : Bagnaia déterminé à se rapprocher de Quartararo

Catalogue : Bagnaia déterminé à se rapprocher de Quartararo

Depuis quelques semaines, l’Italie s’entraîne à s’affirmer ; un danger supplémentaire pour le leader du championnat ‘El Diablo’. Montmeló, circuit talisman de Quartararo Les pilotes du MotoGP™, tous de retour du Mugello, sont actuellement au catalogue, pour la dernière épreuve du calendrier : un rendez-vous, souvent passé par Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™). ‘El Diablo’ a été…

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Bagnaia reigns but Quartararo gains as 12 riders break the lap record on Sunday

Pecco, Zarco, Quartararo, Marini... the list of laptime heroes goes on as pre-season comes to a hectic close at Portimao. Another day, another set of timesheets… and the last one before we go racing! The final day of pre-season is in the books and there’s a new fastest ever lap of the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, with reigning Champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) absolutely smashing his old lap record and bringing it down to a stunning 1:37.968. But he wasn’t the only one under the old 1:38.725, with an incredible 12 riders ending 2023 pre-season with a quicker lap than that. At the top, the first on Bagnaia’s tail was Johann Zarco (Prima Pramac Racing) as he unleashed a time attack on Sunday, not into the 1:37s but seemingly taking a big step forward. Just 0.038 behind him came another rider who took a leap forward on the final day of pre-season, with 2021 Champion Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) taking third and looking a whole lot happier by the end of play than he had 24 hours earlier. Here’s a rundown of the final day’s action as we start to switch from test mode to race mode!

DUCATI, PRAMAC, VR46 & GRESINI Bagnaia smashed his own all-time lap record and then put in a MotoGP™ Sprint simulation that raised eyebrows up and down pitlane, with most laps under the old best race lap. That was a Jaws music moment before Quartararo was able to get a lot closer, and then Zarco split the two 2022 Championship rivals. Bastianini struck late to move up significantly compared to a lackluster showing on the timesheets on Saturday, having not put in a real hot lap before. He ends the test in sixth, but will most definitely want to reel his teammate further in once the Portuguese GP begins. There was little new to see at Ducati, with focus seemingly having shifted to really dialling in what they’ve tested… barring one small new lever spotted by our pitlane reporters, currently cause for curiosity. Zarco was the closest challenger to reigning Champion Bagnaia, moving up later in the day to depose compatriot Quartararo from second. Zarco appears to have found some long run pace, and said he was back on fettling his own setup rather than running through any testing for the factory. Teammate Jorge Martin was also looking good, and he ends the test in P8 after again running the "ground effect" fairings as he did yesterday. At Mooney VR46 Racing Team, it was a slightly damp squib end to testing for Luca Marini after the fastest rider in Valencia and Sepang suffered two technical issues that interrupted his final day, leaving him right down the timesheets until a final push at the end. It was a good push though, and he manages to end Sunday in P4 – just ahead of sophomore teammate Marco Bezzecchi. The two look more than ready to take on the battle for some serious positions when the season gets it gear. At Gresini Racing MotoGP™, it was a final test of two halves. Fabio Di Giannantonio was ruled out after his crash on Day 1, with no injuries but ruled unfit to give him time to recover ahead of the first race weekend. Alex Marquez was sitting fourth for much of the day before a late attack for a few of his fellow Ducati riders, and the two-time World Champion was shuffled down to a still very interesting seventh – right behind Bastianini. He suffered two crashes but all ok, and even saw that as a positive to get it behind him as he starts a new adventure with a new machine.

YAMAHA The Portimao Test was looking worrying for Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™ on Day 1, and even during the morning hours of Day 2. Soft tyre woes continued to hinder both Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli, but with roughly three hours of pre-season testing to go, Quartararo pounced up to P2 on the timesheets – just 0.148s away from Bagnaia’s new all-time lap record. A last minute sprint for glory. Both riders were continuing to play around with different aero packages on the final day, with Morbidelli’s the most striking on the front of the bike. The Italian was putting in some work on similar to a new upgrade we witnessed for the first time on Saturday, but this one the top set of wings, then a double sidepod design as well as the downwash duct at the bottom. But then came this...

The huge addition, as seen when Quartararo headed out towards the close of play, was interesting to say the least. A rear wing but something never seen before: a much bigger, upside-down triangular-shaped design. The review from the Frenchman: "it wasn't worse". But he said data was needed to see if it was better.

All in all, it was a busy day down in the Yamaha camp. Crucially though, a big step was made for Quartararo, who is feeling a lot happier than he was in Sepang and on Day 1. Going back to some old settings allowed the Frenchman to make critical strides forwards which will be a huge relief for Yamaha. The same sighs of relief won’t be swimming through Morbidelli’s side of the box, however, as the Italian ended the test in P19 after completing 89 laps.

KTM & GASGAS TECH3 At Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, the test was about analysing what they have rather than bringing in a slew of new parts, and a main point of focus remained the engine. That was heard from all machines – both KTM and GASGAS. Brad Binder was the lead RC16 on the timesheets as the South African ends the test in P9 and a good chunk under the old lap record, ahead of the three lead Aprilias.

Jack Miller was P17 on the second Red Bull KTM Factory Racing machine as he looks to settle in. He was focusing on settings and gave a lot of feedback on the electronics, some of which was also reportedly of interest to his new teammate. He was upbeat and said they're really starting to get there, with a bit left to polish... but gave his adaptation a 7 or 8 out of 10 so far. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager Francesco Guidotti said Day 1 was tougher, Sunday morning remained a challenge but by the end of play, they'd started to see some light at the end of the tunnel. The main issue? They're missing a "few tenths" of grip and are working on mechanical solutions as well as on the electronics to take that step forward. As GASGAS Factory Racing Tech 3, Pol Espargaro was just 0.065 off Miller just ahead of him as the gaps remain absolutely tiny down the field, with rookie Augusto Fernandez one of those a little further back, a few tenths behind Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu).

APRILIA & RNF Aprilia Racing's Aleix Espargaro admitted that he struggled with arm pump on Day 1 of the Portimao Test, and those issues continued into Sunday. He put in 52 laps – the least of anyone – and says he will be getting his arm checked out ahead of Round 1 of the season, although the #41 said it wasn’t a disaster. Pace-wise, Espargaro will be happy as he ends the test as the top Aprilia in P10. On the other side of the factory box, Maverick Viñales ends pre-season testing with a beaming smile on his face despite experiencing a technical issue on one of his bikes. P12 definitely doesn’t tell the full tale of his test. The vibes radiating from Top Gun are all positive after another 82 laps were pocketed on the final day, as all signs point towards him and Aprilia kicking off 2023 in fine form. Viñales was the final rider inside the old lap record.

Fine form is one way of describing the performance of a pair of Aprilia newcomers: Miguel Oliveira and RNF MotoGP™ Team teammate Raul Fernandez. Both riders have been consistently up the sharp end of the timesheets in Portimao, but afternoon crashes for both – Oliveira at Turn 3, Fernandez at Turn 1 – put a slight dampener on their final day. But like Espargaro and Viñales, their positions on the timesheets don’t necessarily portray the story of their pre-season... and they'll be ones to watch when the lights go out for sure.

HONDA & LCR "It’s time to start working with what we have," expressed Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) after Day 1 as the eight-time World Champion admitted that after testing big things in the afternoon, he and Honda lost their way a bit. It’s no surprise we didn’t see many new parts on the RC213Vs on Sunday then, but we did see Marquez continuing on Honda’s updated air intake and aero package set-up. Marquez confirmed that his final day on track was the best he’d felt all pre-season. A Sprint simulation suggested Honda aren’t a million miles away, not where they want to be, but it’s not a disaster. Marquez also confirmed he and teammate Joan Mir are pulling in the same direction, so there was plenty of promising noises coming from the HRC camp ahead of Round 1.

Alex Rins (LCR Honda Castrol) was given the 2021 Honda aero package and ground effect fairing to test on the final day, the latter was also seen using a very different set-up on the front suspension from all the other Hondas. In addition, both Rins and teammate Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) have been using last year’s clutch – not the new, carbon one that Nakagami has previously tested. It's Mir who ends the Portimao Test as the quickest Honda in P13, 0.016s ahead of Marquez who in turn is 0.004s faster than Rins. They’re all within a second of the all-time lap record, a sign Honda are heading down the correct path. Nakagami finishes the Test down in P20, 1.3s from top spot. And then... all was quiet in pitlane. That's a wrap on pre-season for the premier class, and now all there's left to do is RACE! The first Grand Prix of the season is just around the corner, so make sure to join us then as the engines fire up in Portimao once more. The 24th to the 26th of March 2023: save the date as a new era begins! For more MotoGP info checkout our dedicated MotoGP News page Or visit the official MotoGP website www.motogp.com" Read the full article

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Repaso de 2022: GP de Portugal - Chapuzón diabólico

Repaso de 2022: GP de Portugal – Chapuzón diabólico

Después de unos inicios algo dubitativos en 2022, la defensa del título mundial de Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) escribió un nuevo capítulo en el Autódromo Internacional del Algarve, donde el francés protagonizó todo un recital para ganar con solvencia en Portimao y asaltar el Top 1 de la general con su primer triunfo del año, después de que el entonces líder, Enea Bastianini…

[42bakery]

Is he brainwashed?

Fabio is staying with Yamaha. Good.

[garethbouch]

#ValenciaGP Qualifying roundup: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3

#ValenciaGP Qualifying roundup: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3

MotoGP This is it. The stage is set for the #TheDecider. On pole it’s Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) followed by Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) and Jack Miller (Ducati Lenovo Team) to make some interesting front row dynamics, while Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) pushed as hard has he could – and then some – to earn P4 on the grid at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. Importantly…

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Ο Fabio Quartararo τιμωρήθηκε για τη σύγκρουση του με τον Aleix Espargaro

Ο Fabio Quartararo τιμωρήθηκε για τη σύγκρουση του με τον Aleix Espargaro

Ο Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) δέχθηκε ποινή Long Lap ως τιμωρία για τη σύγκρουσή του με τον Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing) στο TT Assen. (more…)

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Vinales continues its momentum in qualifying!

Vinales continues its momentum in qualifying!

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It was a special qualifying session that was waiting for the MotoGP ™ riders and for good reason, if it was not possible to drive on Saturday afternoon, it was after the warm-up. No matter, Maverick Vinales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) will once again be happy. The Catalan – who had dominated FP1, FP2 and FP3 – will go so far as to drive the point in his final attempt with a lap in…