Another new positive trait of the Yamaha was spotted at the MotoGP Buriram test.

Yamaha had already captured attention in Sepang when💛 Fabio Quartararo went fastest on Day 1.

But another fresh attribute of their bike came to th💎e fore in the🍸 past few days.

“A couple o🀅f different members of manufacturers, and me, noticed that the Yamaha h꧂as made a big step on their starts,” Dorna’s Jack Appleyard explained.

“It so🐭unds aඣs though they’ve got a new clutch system.

“It sounds similar to the KTM. It really does scream, it wrings it neck off wheꦫn it starts, then drives forward.

“The KTM is so impressiv🅰e to watch, those things are rockets off the line."

'Good news' for Yamaha

“But the good news for Yamaha? Someone pointed out to me that it’s not just ♋one rider that has been able to perfect it," Appleyard said.

“All fꦓour riders, time and time again, the sample size is there, they have been v🐬ery good off the line.

“That’s another p༺ositive for Yamaha. Although they haven’t seജt the world alight on the timesheets like they did in Sepang, give them time.

“I think it might come. There is sign of improvement there. If they can qualify well, which they have proven in Sepang, it looks like the🌊y can start well.”

Yamaha﷽ are the manufacturer who have really raised expectation ꦯduring preseason.

After a drab two years, there is finally reason to🃏 be optimistic.

After the addition of Max Bartolini as tech director, and the ongoing evolutio🐠n of a V4 en🅠gine, Yamaha now enter a season with a satellite team and two extra riders.

They recruited Pramꦰac - then signed up J♕ack Miller and Miguel Oliveira - who have MotoGP experience of Honda, Ducati, KTM and Aprilia.

But can Yamaha൩ turn their promising preseason into meaningful results when the season begins on February 28 in Thailand?