Lin Jarvis, Managing Director - Yamaha Motor Racing: "Following Valentino’s crash on Thursday, August 31st, Yamaha decided not to replace him at the San Marino Grand Prix, but for the next Grand Prix in Aragón the team is obliged to enter two riders. It being virtually impossible for Valentino to be fit to race in Aragón, Yamaha decided to search for a capable replacement from within its own pool of contracted riders. Having previously used Katsuyuki Nakasuga to fill in for Jorge Lorenzo in 2011 and Alex Lowes to replace Bradley Smith in 2016, we decided that Michael van der Mark should have the opportunity this time around. It is never easy to step in to replace another rider and
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Viñales: “I’m not disappointed”
Maverick Viñales, P6: “I‘m not disappointed. We struggled a bit with the rear grip and I don‘t know why. I felt some strange sliding on the wet, completely different than on the dry, so we have to analyse it. I think we still have to work. It was the first time I went out on the Yamaha in the rain, so there is a lot of work to do on the wet set-up, but I‘m happy. In the end, I‘m the first Yamaha and Valentino is always really fast on the wet, so I‘m quite satisfied and confident. It‘s only the second row. From there I can have a good start and also contend for the victory tomorrow.” Source link
Yamaha VR46 Master Camp riders hit the track
Soichiro Minamimoto (Japan): “I learned the basic techniques today and at the end of the session I was able to run the overall corner and control the tyre slide, which I really enjoyed. It was the first time that I rode a YZ250F, but it was very good. I wanted to go fast at the beginning, because it’s easy to jump to a conclusion, but Mr. Marco Belli said to us that it’s important to think ahead and I understood what he said very much.”...
Yamaha set to reveal 2014 livery
The latest M1 has already been witnessed, in the pre-season test of Valencia that was staged after the season-closing Grand Prix of 2013. However, on that occasion Lorenzo and Rossi were using non-liveried machines. On Friday, representatives from the majority of Indonesia’s 5,000 Yamaha showrooms will be attending the presentation in Jakarta, as the Japanese brand looks to win back the MotoGP™ title last won by Lorenzo in 2012.