Finally it has been confirmed that Morbidelli will be replaced in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up by Alex Rins, after months of speculation th🌸at he would be axed.

Rossi “took a dim vi💝ew” on the decision, accordinꦏg to .

The Italian legend was “already not particularly happy about being moved to 🧔the Petronas satellite team in 2021,” t𓄧he report adds.

Rossi signed a deal as꧃ a brand ambassador for Yamaha earlier this se🐽ason.

The Japanese manufacturer is where the seven-time premier 🧜class champion enjoyed his most iconic days.

But, awkwardly, Yamaha have꧙ now dispensed with one of Rossi’s proteges in Morb💃idelli.

Morbidell꧂i is one🌼 of four VR46 Academy graduates on the current MotoGP grid.

His removal from his 2024 seat with Yamaha comes at an intriguing time beꦺcause the manufacturer have been linked with taking over Rossi’s💮 Mooney VR46 team from 2025 onwards.

How this chapter may have soured relꦕations between Rossi and Yam𒅌aha remains to be seen.

Marco Bezzecchi is currently con♛sidering whether to remain with Mooney VR46 in 2024, complicating the picture if that team leaves Ducati for Yamaha a year later.

The possibility of Bezzecchi exiting Ducati for Yamaha on the🌊se terms “exists but is low”, the report claims.