The Yamaha Factory Racing Team used the Grand Prix of Malaysia Sunday to collect more valuable dry-track data at the Sepang International Circuit. Wild-card entry Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez stuck to his plan of using the 20-lap MotoGP Race to push the V4-Powered Prototype in a full-length MotoGP Race setting and rode it to an 18th place across the finish line.<\/p>\n
Sepang (Malaysia), 26 October 2025<\/p>\n
The Yamaha Factory Racing Team completed their testing programme in today’s MotoGP Race at the Grand Prix of Malaysia. Wild-card entry Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez wrapped up the 20-lap contest in 18th place in the Yamaha V4-Powered Prototype’s second full-length MotoGP Race.<\/p>\n
Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez started from P23 and gained a position early on by overtaking Michele Pirro. The Yamaha test rider had made his plans clear for the Sunday: he was determined to complete all 20 laps and gather dry-track data while pushing in the race. Though he wasn’t able to stay with a rider group, he put his head down. With a competitor taking a fall on lap 5, the number-7 rode steadily in 21st position. Two more riders crashing out and Miguel Oliveira dropping to the back of the pack had Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez climb as high as 19th before he started to battle with a charging Pirro with 7 laps to go. Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez was pushed down to 20th, but as another two riders failed to make it to the chequered flag, he ultimately crossed the finish line in 18th place, 47.060s from first.<\/p>\n
After today’s results, Augusto Fern\u00e1ndez still holds joint-24th place in the championship standings with 8 points, and Yamaha is in 5th position in the constructor championship with 221 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yamaha Factory Racing Team used the Grand Prix of Malaysia Sunday to collect more valuable dry-track data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-242433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}