Fabio Quartararo was the main Yamaha in final Sunday’s Qatar GP down in eleventh and 17.701 seconds off race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the manufacturing facility Ducati.
Group-mate Alex Rins additionally struggled, lacking the factors in sixteenth on his debut for the Japanese marque.
This led to 2021 world champion Quartararo stating that Yamaha is “additional than ever” from its European rivals, regardless of being certainly one of solely two producers with full concession advantages at its disposal.
Chatting with Canal+ after the race, Meregalli shared Quartararo’s frustrations and praised the Frenchman’s efforts within the grand prix.
“Fabio did what he might for the second,” Meregalli mentioned.
“We’re reasonable. We noticed what we might do right here two weeks in the past, throughout the assessments, once we did the race simulation. We already noticed the extent.
“After all we aren’t comfortable, we’re reasonable and goal.
“We now have listed what now we have to do, however it takes time.
“We’re making progress, now we have improved prime pace, aerodynamics, and now we have to realize it to proceed progressing. We now have plenty of work to do.
“I’m dissatisfied, sure, however glad as a result of now we have performed what we might.
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Manufacturing facility Racing
Photograph by: Yamaha
“We now have collected knowledge, we progressed after the dash race, as a result of we had a degradation downside.
“It was nonetheless occurring on Sunday, however much less so.
“We now have modified issues, now we actually know what we need to do, the place we need to go, however it takes time.
“We’re not magicians. We all know what must be performed, and it takes time to get there.”
Meregalli additionally famous that Quartararo’s method to racing has now modified as he “now works with the target of progressing”.
“Quartararo’s work this weekend, even when it is just the primary, has been good,” the group director added.
“It’s a completely different method of working. A few years in the past he was solely attempting to win, now he works with the target of progressing, gathering all doable info and do assessments.
“We already tried new issues in Mugello, we are going to do it once more in Portimao.
“The programme is kind of tight and we must cowl as a lot as doable.”
