[kropotkin thinks...] - Misano MotoGP Friday Round Up: Why Are The Yamahas So Fast On

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On a normal race weekend, you might see one or two minor updates in all of the garages collectively. Factories don't like to debut too many new parts at the same time, as there is not enough time to evaluate them effectively. And normally, you would test one part at a time and evaluate them separately, to try to understand what difference each specific part makes.

However, there was an official test here at Misano two weeks ago, and so teams had a chance to do the preliminary sifting ahead of the race. And that is why Valentino Rossi started FP1 with a new carbon-fiber swingarm on both of his Yamaha M1s, tested a new aerodynamic front wheel cover, and both he and Maverick Viñales had one bike each with the new double-barreled exhaust debuted at the test.

"It's positive, because it looks like that Yamaha is working stronger now and also working in the right direction," Rossi told us on Friday afternoon. "For me, from the end of 2016 to the Brno test, in reality everything we test is not clearly better than the old stuff. So technically speaking it was a very difficult period and in fact the gap to the other manufacturers increased. But now, from the beginning of the season something changed and have a lot of different people from Japanese especially but also Europe and it looks like now we start to see the effect."

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