If not, Yamaha Racing managing director Lin Jarvis is ‘confident’ of returning🙈 to four M1s on the grid in 2025.

For the first time in the ‘MotoGP’ era, Yamaha will beꦚ reduced to only its factory team (of Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli)&nb🦂sp;this season, after RNF switched to Aprilia.

Long-running rumours of a new partnership with Valentino Rossi’🅘s VR46 team were reignited over the winter, but the Italian squad insists it will honour a three-year Ducat꧒i deal that runs until the end of 2024.

It is not clear if that is among the ‘obstacles’ referred to by Jarvis, who was asked about the satellite team plans by :

“This ജyear we will be without a satellite team this year. In one way, I don’t think it will be a big deficit, because it will allow us to focus purely on the factory bikes.

“We really need to make sure t🍰hat we have a bike that will be fully competitive for t🐠his season and for the future, 2024 and 2025.

“We would Like to co💎me back to having a satellite team, there’s no doubt about it.

“It’s com🐽plicated to explain the opportunities and the obsꦆtacles that we face. But if we can resolve some of the obstacles we might consider 2024.

"If not, I am quite confiဣdent that by 2025 we will have a satellite team again. So let’s wait and see “

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Yamaha ‘understands’ Valencia engine issue: ‘Everything is now clear’

Also at this week’s Jakarta team launch, Yamaha Racing president Takahiro Sumi was asked about t🐎he lack of performance from the previously impressiꦅve 2023 Yamaha engine at last November’s Valencia test.

“Unfortunately the result [at the Valencia test♚] was something different than we had expected,” Sumi said. “But after that we analysed a lot about the reasons. So everything is now clear and we are m꧑ore prepared for the Sepang [Test].

“It was something that made the riders disappointed after Valencia… but now we understand more and are more prepared for Sep𒁏ang.”

The new Yamaha engine will bౠe on track against its rival machines during the upcoming Sepang Shakedown, 🅷for test riders, from February 5-7, then given to Quartararo and Morbidelli for the Official test from February 10-12.