Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP |News details:Monster Energy Yamaha Start 2025 Pre-Season Testing in Barcelona on Positive Note

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Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo and Álex Rins returned to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya today to kick off their 2025 testing programme. They wrapped up the productive Barcelona MotoGP Official Test in 2nd and 8th place respectively in the overall results.

Montmeló (Catalunya), 19th November 2024

After a one-day break, the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team came back to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to start the 2025 pre-season with today's one-day Barcelona MotoGP Official Test. It was a full-on day for Fabio Quartararo and Álex Rins, which they concluded in 2nd and 8th place respectively in the overall timesheets.

Quartararo was eager to make a good start to the 2025 championship and used today's available riding time (from 10:00-17:00 GMT +1) to test an updated aero, chassis, swingarm, and engine, which the Frenchman reviewed positively. He posted a best time of 1'39.199s on lap 44/75 that put him in 2nd position, 0.396s from the top.

Rins had already stated after the Solidarity GP Race that he wanted to spend extra time working on finding a base setting. Apart from this, he tried an updated chassis and engine. With the sun setting quite early, he rode almost non-stop from 11am to 4:30pm, trying to collect as much data as possible. His best time, a 1'39.568s, set on lap 54/60, put him in 8th place, 0.765s from first.

The Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP riders were joined by new Yamaha recruits Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira, who collected extra data for Yamaha's engineers to work with over the winter break.

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP will now recharge their batteries and prepare for the 2025 season. They will be back in action in the new year for the Sepang Shakedown Test from 31 January - 2 February, followed by the Sepang Test from 5 - 7 February and the Buriram Test from 12 - 13 February.

Massimo Meregalli

Team Director

We’ve only just wrapped up the 2024 season, but we already got back to action. The team was highly motivated to get to work today because this was an important test. We had 7 hours, though maybe less considering the sun set early, but we got a lot of work done. Fabio and Álex evaluated the updated items: aero, chassis, swingarm, and engine. Both riders seemed pleased with the progress, so all in all it was a positive test and a good stepping stone for things to come after the winter break. We’re going into the off-season with a positive feeling, but we will continue to work as hard as ever off track. All of today’s data, also Jack Miller's and Miguel Oliveira's, will now be sent to the Yamaha engineers, who will prepare the next steps for the Sepang tests. It will be very important to evaluate all the updated items we tested today there once more to confirm today's findings.

Fabio Quartararo

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Rider

We tested many items that were quite positive. I think that the direction Yamaha took was the correct one. The updated chassis and engine were the bigger steps we made here. The next big steps will arrive in Sepang, but I think this was already quite a positive day, and I enjoyed riding the new bike. We were able to test it in a proper way. Even without really pushing in a time attack, we could still push and set a quite good lap time.

Álex Rins

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Rider

Concerning the set-up, we made a small step. After the Race, the engineers and I talked and discussed what we tested today. We tried something I didn't try during the GP weekend for the set-up that makes my life a bit easier when riding the bike. Apart from that, Yamaha brought some updates: a chassis and an engine. I felt especially good with the chassis. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with the test we did. Now Yamaha will have a lot of data, plus the data from two more riders. So, now it's up to Yamaha to put it all together. Let's see what they can do for Sepang.