Yamaha suffered a PR blow before the 2026 MotoGP season even started.
It was as described before the experiment. Fabio Quatararo has agreed to join Honda.. Then on day one, Quatararo fell and broke his finger.
It’s not a serious injury for the 2021 world champion, but he will be absent from MotoGP’s Kuala Lumpur season opener. Yamaha ‘pissed off’ by Quattro to fly home.
When the situation happened, it got worse Yamaha got engine trouble But he could not find the root cause. That forced them to sit out Wednesday’s run and run at reduced power on Thursday.
He was excited by his arrival Toprak Razgatlioglu In the satellite group, Pramak has been marred by a series of damaging failures.
Toprak Razgatlioglu must not be happy with the Yamaha Sepang test
Razgatlioglu completed 98 laps during the test, which ranks second among 2026 full-time drivers. Only Quatararo was injured.
He should not be a big threat to the World Superbike champion in his own right, given the benefit of Yamaha’s Class-D concessions as he took part in the Shakhtar a week ago.
But The Yamaha motor is slower than expected.. Maybe the riders will adopt the existing V4. Or At this early stage of the project, it is difficult to swallow either in power or not.
Dennis NoyFormer motorcycle racer and now journalist Razgatlioglu asked his impatient manager Kenan Sofuoglu, ‘What kind of mess have you gotten me into?’ He wrote on X that he asks.
Amazing change that Yamaha made on the bike of Torak Razgatlioglu
Razgatlioglu was honest about his weaknesses. This week, and for the time being, the main priority is adapting to MotoGP.
Still signed to a factory contract, the 29-year-old is unimpressed with Yamaha’s operations to this point. There’s still plenty of time to change things, of course.
Razgatlioglu is bracing himself for a slow start.But he still needs to mentally adjust to fighting for points (which may have been Yamaha’s early objective) rather than pole and race wins.
To make his life more difficult, six-foot Razgatlioglu cannot use Yamaha’s seat aero. Due to MotoGP bike height restrictions. Whether the engineers can find a solution remains to be seen.
