Andrea Dovizioso will be back on a MotoGP bike at this week’s Sepang Shakedown test.

He has been called up as a test rider by Yamaha to add to their ranks.

Yamaha and Honda, as per the concessions rules, are allowed to field their four race riders in addition to their tesꦗt riders at the Shakedown.

The other three factories are limited to just their test ride🥂rs and rookie racers, until the official Sepang test next week.

Dovizioso’s reappearance 𒁏on a Yamaha comes after he spent time testing their M1 in the latter half of last sea♏son, replacing the injured Cal Crutchlow.

Intriguingly, his additi🔯on to the Shakedown prompts questions about whether Yamaha might debut their V4 engine.

Yamaha are sti♏ll running an inline-four-cylinder engine but have admitted that they are developing a V4, to move in the same direction as their rivals.

The Sha🅠kedown test is untelevised and behind-closed-doors so might allow 𓆉Yamaha an opportunity to quietly test the new engine.

Yamaha factory rider Alex Rins previously claimed that they hoped to test the V4, with ⛄Dovizioso on the bike, in December.

But Rins said that plan fel♋l through because the engine wasn’t ready.

This weekend’s Shakedown, with Dovizioso joining test ride🧜r Augusto🐼 Fernandez, factory riders Rins and Fabio Quartararo, and Pramac’s Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira, is the manufacturer’s next potential chance to test the V4.

𓂃Yamaha do not expect to race with a V4 engine until the latter part of 2025, at the earliest.