Yamaha’s MotoGP feature was one of the most frustrating projects in recent times, but 2021 champion Fabio Quartararo remained loyal to them.

Within the three -year area, Yamaha went from the title candidates to have the slowest bike on the network on a few weekends.

Quartararo could have left Yamaha for Gresini and made the transition to a Ducati machine, but decided to stay in the team he always represented.

The tests before the season were encouraging for them. Quartararo ended in the first duration of all three days of the Sepang test.

They failed to reproduce this form in the race that opens the time in Thailand and are under pressure to prove to the second MotoGP event of the year in Argentina.

Alex Rins was in a “bad condition” in Thailand and fought for a rhythm for a while. Does not make the efforts of factory groups to improve more easily.

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Paolo Pavesio admits Yamaha “suddenly” lost MotoGP rhythm due to communication problems

It has now been about three years since Yamaha last won a MotoGP race, with the courtesy of Quartararo in the German Grand Prix of 2022.

Yamaha had a “big problem” in Buriram and struggled to maintain their tires. The heat played chaos with much of the field.

But the reason why they are in their current position was not always clear. CEO Paolo Pavesio puts it in poor COVID-19 communication duration.

“Yes. I think Covid didn’t help us and that is not an excuse,” he said Moto.it. “Certainly created a short -circuit communication to those who had their own headquarters so far away. Japan completely closed to travel, was really a decoupling.

“And having such a high performance driver that may be repaired a gap that began to form, but we know, until the 22nd we played there and we didn’t help, we, we, we, Leyn. Since a sport in which there is technology does not recover from one day to another.

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Why did MotoGP opponents feel ‘really strong’ for Yamaha after MotoGP tests

The last time MotoGP ran to Argentina, Yamaha had both bicycles at the factory in the top eight with Franco Morbidelli on the fourth that day in 2024.

There was an annual break due to financial problems in the country, but the races will eventually return between March 14-16.

MotoGP opponents felt “desperately” for Yamaha after testing, because Quartararo showed such a high pace in the early stages.

He was steadily on racing and kept it. He suggests that if conditions play for their advantage, they could be the second fastest bike on a few pieces this season.

They know that there is a lot more work to do even if they are because they are back where they once compete.