Yamaha’s priva♚te testing weather curse was finally lifted at Valencia, wh🍸ere Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins put in a full day of testing with their M1s.

Both riders had struggled with the heavy feeling of their bikes around Mugello but after a ‘really positive’ 101 laps in Spain, ไQuartararo that the “Bike feeling was much better in Valencia. Let’s bring all we can to Assen 😈”

Rins also signalled that the test had been positive, albeit without any lap times or technical details being revealed, “Last lap of the test (but I could keep working and🧔 enjoying like this all day) ✅ Thanks for your effort team! @yamahamotogp”

Quartararo and Rins will be back𒁃 in official MotoGP action duꦜring this weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen.

Yamaha’s most recent Assens wins were in 2019 with Maverick Vinales, then 2021 with Qu🅺artararo. 

The Frenchman was promoted to third in last year’s Sprint race after a penalty for Brad Binder but crashed o꧙ut early in the grand prix.