The MotoGP season had been moving at a slow pace up until the fifth race in England, but there are two more consecutive races, and the schedule is furious up to the final race. This one marked MotoGP’s return to Silverstone after a 24-year absence. The track has been rebuilt, and one lap is now 5.902 km, making it the longest course in MotoGP. There was no prior testing, so it was a first for all the riders. Yuki arrived on Tuesday and went for a close inspection to prepare for the free run.
The skies were cloudy on Friday, and it looked like it could rain at any time. The 125 cc and MotoGP classes were raced on a dry track, but it rained right before the Moto2 class, so the first race was carried out under wet conditions. Yuki made several laps carefully at first to get a good feel for the course.

The first dry conditions at Silverstone were on Saturday. Yuki had trouble getting his machine adjusted to the course starting with the free run. Nevertheless, he was able to get a good time on his last attack. Unfortunately, the message on the screen said, “CANCEL.” A new and unfamiliar course, there were places to take shortcuts on the fifth and 10th corners. Yuki knew the shortcut on the fifth corner was not allowed, but he had not heard that the shortcut on the 10th corner was disallowed starting with the qualifying round. For some reason, his time was not displayed during the qualifying round, and although he checked with his team, he did not get any information, and his time was cancelled. His team protested to the organizer to no avail, and he ended up in 38th place on the 10th row at the back of the grid.
If his time had been recognized, he would have been in 14th place. Being three tenths of a second from pole position, he had hoped to catch up in the final round, but his machine was just not in the best condition. He went into the race not having solved the problem of the machine acting up coming out of the corners.

Yuki got off to a satisfactory start, but there was a big free-for-all early on, but every time he got ahead, he would lose control of his machine, and the other riders would pass him back. Even so, he was able to calmly assess the situation and moved up into 26th place in the middle of the race. Towards the end, he moved up even further, and in the last lap he moved up five positions to finish in 18th place. Although unable to get any points, he did obtain some precious data.