{"id":657728,"date":"2026-05-08T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:47:09","slug":"updated-fabio-quartararo-confirms-key-yamaha-v4-update-for-le-mans-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657728\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Fabio Quartararo confirms key Yamaha V4 update for Le Mans MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio Quartararo will use revised aerodynamics on his Yamaha V4 during this weekend\u2019s home French MotoGP at Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>Quartararo finished 14th in the Spanish Grand Prix, at the same circuit where he was runner-up on the Inline M1 a year earlier, but climbed to seventh during Monday\u2019s test, crediting a step in front-end confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s tri-plane front wing was among the modifications on offer at the Monday test &#8211; and duly appeared on the Frenchman&#8217;s machine during Friday morning&#8217;s FP1 (pictured).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911998\/fabio-quartararo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quartararo<\/a>, who claimed pole position for his home round last season before being among those caught out in the Sunday rain, said on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, expectations are much lower than last year, unfortunately.<br \/>But in the Jerez test we found &#8211; more than potential, it\u2019s a feeling that on the front we were struggling with from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let&#8217;s try to find this feeling on the front that can help us quite a lot in this kind of track that we know is super important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to use the aero that we tested in Jerez,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cThat was positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is where we found our feeling, and I think that is going to be super important because in the past I was used to make the lap times with the front, and with this bike I&#8217;m not able to do it. So it&#8217;s going to help us a bit in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new aero will be part of a special home livery on Sunday. \u201cI think it&#8217;s going to be really cool,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Althoug<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">h Yamaha\u2019s <\/a>V4 is yet to finish higher than 14th in a grand prix, mixed weather conditions are again forecast for Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>That could play into Quartararo\u2019s hands, following his seventh place in the recent flag-to-flag Jerez Sprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the results are not so great, of course it&#8217;s more difficult. But my spirit is always the same. I try to give my maximum on the bike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you put the helmet on, what makes me happy is to push myself to the limit, and this is what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the results are not the ones that I want, I&#8217;m going to push to my 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s grand prix is set to be Quartararo\u2019s final home appearance as a Yamaha rider ahead of a TBC switch to Honda for 2027.<\/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":"Fabio Quartararo will use revised aerodynamics on his Yamaha V4 during this weekend\u2019s home French MotoGP at Le&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,16230,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-657728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio-quartararo","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657728","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=657728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}