Ramón Forcada and Maverick Viñales will still be racing in Valencia, but at the end of the season the mechanic chief will work with Franco Morbidelli on the Yamaha satellite team. Forcada has now commented on the reappearance of the M1 in the fight for victories, letting on the air understand that the fault of the bad results was not only fault of the machine.

‘After all the bike when it was a disaster wasn’t so bad. When the bike was a complete disgrace he was nine times on the podium. The bike was obviously not ready to win, of course, but it wasn’t such a disaster either. When certain things are missing, if you are able to gather the four or small things that are missing, you realize the difference that you were. In addition to the way the bike works, the rider’s attitude changes 100%’, Forcada was quoted as saying in TodoCircuito.

It is recalled that Viñales was always very critical of Yamaha but ended up being able to win in Phillip Island. The young man of Figueres even assumed a defeatist attitude, which deserved a comment from his still chief of mechanics:

– If the rider feels defeated it is difficult for the bike to work well. For the rider to be optimistic, he needs the bike to give him good sensations. At the end of the day is the sum of small details that give you confidence and they get more optimistic. As they see it doesn’t work, they feel that it isn’t worth risking because they don’t get results. After all, that’s what we’re seeing now.

It is recalled that Maverick Viñales got his first victory of the year – and Yamaha’s only so far – in Australia after a season to forget. Forcada will be removed from the factory team and will work with Morbidelli, while Viñales will work with Esteban García, Bradley Smith’s current chief mechanic.