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Factory-Spec Yamaha MotoGP chassis needs A-Spec 'turnability'
Petronas Yamaha MotoGP team manager Wilco Zeelenberg says Factory-Spec chassis lacked the 'turnability' of the A-Spec machine.
Morbidelli staying MotoGP A-Spec: Cost, timing or Franky's choice?
Franco Morbidelli, runner-up to Suzuki's Joan Mir in the 2020 MotoGP world championship, will again be the only Yamaha rider on the older 'A-Spec' machine this season. "That's a very strange one for me," new Factory Ducati signing Jack Miller said recently.
Yamaha moves 2021 Factory MotoGP chassis 'closer to Morbidelli spec'
The gulf in performance between Franco Morbidelli and the Factory-Spec Yamaha riders during the end of last season prompted the likes of Maverick Vinales and especially Fabio Quartararo to wish they were also on the older A-Spec bike.
Yamaha: Achilles' heel, 7 MotoGP victories, missed opportunities…
2020 was a season of 'missed opportunities' for Yamaha, which won more than twice the number of races of any other manufacturer but still lost out on the MotoGP riders', constructors' and teams' titles.
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Valencia MotoGP: Quartararo: We pushed for Factory bike, wasn't correct choice
It might not make comfortable reading for Yamaha, but at least their 2021 factory MotoGP team line-up of Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo are in agreement.