Morbidelli is currently without a seat in🐻 the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up after Yamaha confirmed their int🥂ention to get rid of him, in favour of current LCR Honda rider Rins.

Yamaha managing director Lin Jarvis, who has overseen glory for Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Fabio Quartararo but is now presiding over an underachieving team, detꦦailed the decision-makin꧂g process.

“It was the te𒉰am’s decision to make a change,” he said. “In my personal feeling, that is something that the team didn’t have to do, but decided to do.

I think it could play out well for both parties. 🥀;

“If you’re not able to extract the level of performance as a෴ rider, sometimes changing th🥂e scene can be good for the rider as well as the team.

“If we knew what the futu🅠re would bring, it would be easier.

“It was time to make a change.

“Fran🃏ky has performed better this year than last year. It’s been good o💞n some occasions, Argentina was an example, he ran well. 

“We’ve seen sign✃s of the old Franky coming out. That is good to see.꧅ 

“On the other side, for the future, we decided to makꦍe a change. Sometimes, like in a football team, you just need to make a change and only time will tell if it’s favourable to us or Franky.”

Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi were linked to the Yamaha seat bu🍸t ultimately the Japanese manufacturer confirmed the capture of Rins.

“It’s nice, he’s got a lot of experience, he hasn’t won a world title thus far but he’s won many races,” Jarvis said.&nbs🐓p;

“What I like about Alex? His experience can be vitaꦦl for us. 

“His fighting spirit - he’s the only non-Ducati rider to winꦿ a race this year, that already says something. He also won two races🐻 at the back end of last season. He’s riding well. 

“He wants to be in the🐈 Yamaha team, he expressed a desire to be with us. Plus his expe꧑rience on inline 4 should help him adapt. He’ll be a good teammate to Fabio which should raise the level of our bike and of both riders.”

Yamaha, like♈ fellow Japanese manufacturer Honda, have fallen behind their European counterparts this season and are seeking a major comeback in 2024.