People expected it to take a year – in fact Valentino Rossi fixed most of the Yamaha YZR-M1's problems in his first hours on the bike on 24 January 24, 2004
Yamaha had a disastrous start to MotoGP's 990cc four-stroke era. The company won two races in 2002 and 2003, while Honda won 29.
In fact it was worse than that. Yamaha's two wins came in 2002. In 2003 the M1 didn't win a single race and scored only one podium all year, with Alex Barros at rainy Le Mans. There were rumours that Yamaha might walk away from MotoGP, rather than continue to suffer this ritual embarrassment.
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