{"id":312327,"date":"2025-11-27T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:19:16","slug":"alex-rins-yamaha-v4-debut-also-made-me-faster-on-the-inline-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312327\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rins: Yamaha V4 debut also made me faster on the Inline M1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rins believes it wasn\u2019t a coincidence that his best Yamaha result on the soon-to-be-replaced Inline4 machine came after his debut on the new V4 prototype.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Yamaha<\/a> rider claimed a best grand prix finish of tenth during the 15 rounds before riding the V4, in a private Barcelona test, followed swiftly by a half-day outing at the official Misano test.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard later matched his tenth-place in Mandalika, a weekend where he qualified in fourth, before securing his best-yet Yamaha finish of seventh in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Misano test, when we tried the V4, I was feeling quite good and riding a little bit in a different way than what I was used to riding the Inline4,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/rl \" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rins<\/a> reflected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, with the Inline4, I was able to carry that on, and it&#8217;s true that since the day that we tried the V4, I made a step.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a little bit faster over one lap, a bit more constant, I didn&#8217;t make many mistakes in a lap, and I was able to stop the bike better. So I&#8217;m quite happy about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his Inline M1 career with 14th place at the Valencia finale, Rins avoided new soft tyres during his first full day on the V4 at the post-race <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> test.<\/p>\n<p>The former Suzuki and Honda race winner was 1.347s from leader Raul Fernandez but &#8211; like 2026 Yamaha team-mates Fabio Quartararo, Jack Miller and Toprak Razgatlioglu &#8211; also remained at Valencia for a private test the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha has officially confirmed it will race the V4 in 2026.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valencia-motogp-test-fastest-vs-average.png\"   type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"Valencia MotoGP Test: Fastest lap time vs 'Average' lap time for each rider (slow laps excluded).\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Valencia MotoGP Test: Fastest lap time vs &#8216;Average&#8217; lap time for each rider (slow laps\u2026<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Rins believes it wasn\u2019t a coincidence that his best Yamaha result on the soon-to-be-replaced Inline4 machine came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[40457,64,63,10671,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-312327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-rins","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-monster-energy-yamaha-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312327","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=312327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}