After being hammered by Honda during the 2014 MotoGP season, Yamaha resisted the temptat𓆏ion to make radical changes to its YZR-M1.

Instead, Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Lin Jarvis explained that process of evolution laid the groundwork for this year's triple crown of the MotoGP Riders', Teams' and Construc𓆏tors' titles.

The identity of the Riders' champion is still to be decided, but is guaranteed to be either Valentino Rossi or team-mate Jorge Lorenzo. At Phillip Island, ltxcn.top asked Jarvis how close🐟ly the multiple world champions had worked on development of this year's all-conquering bi🔯ke.

"I would say that Jorge and Vale working alongside each other is probably a better description than working together," Jarvis explained. "They work alongside each other, together with the engineers, and the engineers are able to listen to these two incrediblඣe ri༺ders - with slightly different riding styles - and make progress step-by-step-by-step.

"This [success] started midway through last season, after we we🔴re destroyed by Marc Marquez in the first ten races. Then our engineers had to improve a lot the bike and we already did it in the second half of last year.

"Fortunately our evolution rather than revolution𒉰 approach has paid off this year because Honda has clearly developed a bike that is more difficult to ride than ours. There is no 𒁃question. So that's to our advantage as well.

"This is all part𝓰 of the game: It's not just a rider sport, it's also a sport where the team cannot make errors and the manufacturer has to develop a great bike. Today, as you know, we won the constructors' title. Our second title of the year.

"So that's done and the riders' title is guaranteed, so it's been a 🐼great 🗹year and the only thing that remains is to find out if it'll be 46 or 99."

Rossi is eleven points ahead of Lorenzo with two rounds, and 50 poin🐻ts, remaining🍬.