Yamaha toasts one rider’s win, divorces other
MOTOGP
ASSEN (NLD)
27 JUNE
ROUND 9/19
Seldom do 1-2 finishes for a team yield such unusually varied responses from their riders, but the circumstances surrounding both Fabio Quartararo’s Dutch TT MotoGP victory last weekend and Yamaha stablemate Maverick Vinales’ second led to a bizarre atmosphere in camp last Sunday afternoon.
The 2.82-mile Assen track – “paradise” for motorcycle racers, as Valentino Rossi described it – was almost tailor-made for the Yamaha, the Dutch venue’s fast and flowing nature at one with the M1’s agility. And race pace in FP4 suggested top spot would only
