Yamaha team manager Wataru Yoshikawa has explained what makes a successful endurance racing team as MotoGP star Jack Miller gears up for his return to the Suzuka 8 Hours.<\/p>\n
Four-time MotoGP race winner Jack Miller<\/a> joins Yamaha\u2019s all-star factory line-up for this weekend\u2019s Suzuka 8 Hours, partnering either Andrea Locatelli and Katsuyuki Nakasuga for the Japanese marque\u2019s bid to end Honda\u2019s recent dominance.<\/p>\n Miller last raced at the Suzuka endurance classic in 2017 with Honda, finishing fourth on his debut.<\/p>\n Yamaha hand advice to Jack Miller<\/p>\n A completely different challenge to what he is used to in MotoGP<\/a>, where he currently races for Pramac Yamaha<\/a>, team manager Wataru Yoshikawa has spoken of the importance of defined roles in a successful Suzuka outfit.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of us are endurance riders, and we’re all top riders in our respective categories, so it’s difficult in nature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt won’t work unless everyone is willing to do their best with respect.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the team needs to present a routine and your role, and everyone needs to follow that.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cIn reality, everyone wants to be number one and have the team revolve around them, at their level.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s why they divide up roles, but each rider tries to show off.<\/p>\n \u201cThey all have the idea that they can achieve this time even on used tyres, so as riders, they’ll show that they’re number one at every opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s the essence of top riders, and it’s only natural, since they’re all top riders competing on the world stage.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if they push that too hard, the team won’t work in endurance.\u201d<\/p>\n At the end of the test day on Wednesday, Honda HRC – with Johann Zarco, Xavi Veirge and Takumi Takahashi – led the way with a best time of 2m05.645s.<\/p>\n The No.21 Yamaha Racing Team entry of Miller, Locatelli and Nakasuga was second on a 2m05.981s, with the No.7 YART Yamaha bike completing the top three.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yamaha team manager Wataru Yoshikawa has explained what makes a successful endurance racing team as MotoGP star Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,3555,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-32335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jack-miller","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\/32335","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=32335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}