Jack Miller\u2019s first full day on a Yamaha V4 ended with the Australian 20th on the timesheets, 1.491s from leader Raul Fernandez, at Tuesday’s Valencia MotoGP test.<\/p>\n
After an initial run on this year\u2019s Inline bike, the Pramac<\/a> rider got down to work refining the prototype machine.<\/p>\n Miller\u2019s best time was set on his 49th of 51 laps, but he was especially impressed to see Fabio Quartararo<\/a> clock a 1m 29.927s on the V4, just over half a second from Fernandez.<\/p>\n While most teams had to cram in as much work as possible after a delayed start, due to a slowly drying track, Yamaha and its four race riders are staying at Valencia on Wednesday for a private test.<\/p>\n \u201cDecent first day on the V4,\u201d began Miller<\/a>. \u201cObviously, some work needs to be done, but we’re in the right direction.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cFabio did a scorching lap time already on that thing. We weren’t too far away, but I’ve got some clear areas I need to work on in terms of my feedback and setup.<\/p>\n \u201cThankfully, we’ve got tomorrow to try and iron out some of the little details and test a few items just to gauge the direction that we need to go for the bike [spec] that we bring to Malaysia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s a very new project, so today was all about understanding and making the bike your own.<\/p>\n \u201cTomorrow will be more about trying to understand cause and effect on the bike. We’ll plug away at that. We’ve got some ideas to try out.\u201d<\/p>\n Miller feels Quartararo\u2019s lap time was especially impressive given the V4 is still running with a ‘conservative’ power output.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cWe wouldn’t go with [the V4] if we didn’t think the potential was going to be bigger than [the Inline],\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n \u201cFabio being a bit over half a second off already is a promising sign, considering we’re pretty steady at the minute with the engine. So that was a decent lap time.<\/p>\n \u201cThe electronics still need a lot of work,\u201d he added. \u201cWe’ve got to play around with the same sort of stuff that I did this time last year when I hopped on the M1.<\/p>\n \u201cJust progression, throttle and then the TC and stuff like that. The TC’s not too bad. It’s just the way it works. Getting the fuelling right, getting all those little things sorted so that the bike is running crisp, not spinning on the first touch and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Test rider Augusto Fernandez<\/a>, who took the V4 to 16th place on its third wild-card appearance in Sunday\u2019s season finale, had mainly struggled with front-end feeling.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIt needs a considerable step in the front end, that’s for certain,\u201d Miller confirmed.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, coming off the M1, which is a bike that’s got a remarkable front end, you’re always going to feel like you’re taking a back step in that sort of department, but I think we’ve got a clear direction that we need to go.<\/p>\n \u201cI understand Augusto’s frustration and lack of confidence in said front end. There’s some work that definitely needs to be done, but I believe once we’ve got a direction, which I think the boys do, that’s going to be an easier solution.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Miller\u2019s new team-mate Toprak Razgatlioglu<\/a> set the 18th fastest lap time (+1.294) in his first official MotoGP<\/a> test.<\/p>\n \u201cReally good,\u201d Miller said of the reigning WorldSBK champion\u2019s day. \u201cI haven’t had a chat with him yet. He was still talking with the engineers when I left, but it seems like he had a good day.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n “I’m interested to hear his feedback on the bike and obviously the tyres and etc. It’ll be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Miller\u2019s first full day on a Yamaha V4 ended with the Australian 20th on the timesheets, 1.491s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,3555,806,805,803,804,7188,85,23899],"class_list":{"0":"post-293248","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-jack-miller","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-toprak-razgatlioglu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293248","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=293248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}