VR46 has ‘already rejected’ Yamaha’s offer to become its new satellite MotoGP team for 2025, 🙈‘generating surprise and d🐼isappointment’ among Lin Jarvis and the Japanese leaders.

That’s accordiꦫng to a report on which adds that Valentiꦍno Rossi’s team is now set to forge closer links with Ducati - and potentially take over the ‘official satellite’ status currently enjoyed by Pramac.

Pramac🐼, like VR46, is out of contract with Ducati at the end of this season.

Rossi’s links with Yamaha – as a rider and now global ambassador - meant VR46 has long been tipped as the obvious choice to take on t🐬he 🌳touted satellite M1 supply next season.

But paddock rumours have persisted that Pramac, despite finishing title runner-up with Jorge Maꩲrtin last season and leading the early 2024 standings, is also in the running a🎃t Yamaha.

Sky Sports believes Pramac now has two options:

Sign with Ducati for another two seasons, po🦹ssibly 𒁏retaining factory-spec status, but in the knowledge that ‘there may be no future [with Ducati] after 2027’.

Or switch to Yamaha in 2025, bringing longer-term stabili𒊎ty plus financial incentives from the Japanese manufacturer,🐈 which recently received a vote of confidence in its future by retaining Fabio Quartararo.

Pramac is said to have ‘approximately a month and a half’ to exercise its contrac𒅌tual option of an extension with Ducati.

LCR, long associated with Honda, is the third satellite team free to🐟 change manufacturers at the end of this se♚ason.