Yamaha team boss acknowledges the limitations of the team after Fabio Quartararo's disappointment in the Qatar MotoGP. The team has made changes and is optimistic about the future, but acknowledges that it will take time to achieve their goals.
The Japanese manufacturer entered 2024 with an air of positivity after the additions of Ducati engineers Massimo Bartolini and Marco Nicotra. They also had extra preseason testing time as part of the new concessions rule, which will aid their development all year.
"We have changed things, now we really know what we want to do, where we want to go, but it takes time," Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha team boss, was quoted by Quartararo, whose contract expires at the end of this year making him among the most high-profile riders available to rivals, offered a glum reaction to the Qatar MotoGP. His team boss reacted to his star man’s disappointment with a bluntly honest assessment of Yamaha’s limitations. “We are realistic. We had already seen what we could do here two weeks ago, during testing, when we did the race simulation. We have listed what we have to do, but it takes time. Maybe he was very nervous and disappointed at the beginning of last year. Quartararo was the 2021 MotoGP champion and only failed to win back-to-back titles on the last day of the 2022 season
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