MotoGP tests are schizophrenic affairs. There is a lot of waiting around as it feels like nothing is happening, and there is a lot of frantic chasing around trying to figure out what is happening. Sometimes, both of these are going on at the same time. It is only after you have sat down after a test and had time to think about what went on that you can begin to get a handle on it.
This is not just a roundabout way of saying that a fuller analysis of what people are testing will have to wait until I can sit down in my hotel room on Friday and type up everything I think I learned. It is also a chance to say that Wednesday was one of those days where nothing and everything happens at the same time.
First, the big news of the day. And of the test really. And perhaps the biggest news of MotoGP for as long as I can remember. Bigger than when Yamaha was forced to request a change to their valves in 2020. As you will have undoubtedly heard, unless you have been confined in an isolation chamber for the past day, Yamaha have paused participation in the rest of the Sepang test, after engineers analyzed a technical problem with Fabio Quartararo’s bike on Tuesday afternoon and found that it could be dangerous, both for the Yamaha riders, and for other riders on track.
