Between Franco Morbidelli and Yamaha, it is a situation to manage much more complicated than the simplicity exposed by a contract whose deadline to respect is fixed until 2023. Because, during this time, the results are catastrophic while a WSBK World Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu is up for promotion. It would be a gamble without the guarantee of a winning result, but it would still be better than this announced failure of an Italian-Brazilian who finds no solution to his problems of adaptation to an R1 modeled by Fabio Quartararo. In terms of conventional termination, we know how to do it at Yamaha since the Maverick Viñales case law. And then there is a good place to be taken in a well-known team with a beautiful bike to come…
Yamaha keeps repeating that he will never abandon his soldier Franco Mobidelli in great difficulty in the MotoGP theater of operations. Initially, we can interpret this assumed position as a noble sign of encouragement and loyalty. But secondly, we can also decode a more political message: if there is a rupture, it will not be the fault of Yamaha . Things are thus clear and anticipated. Lesson Maverick Vinales wore.
Certainly, there is a contract until 2023 between the two parties. But its bonds are corroded by the acid of bad results that have followed one another for too long. If there ends up being weariness, it will take two people to agree and agree. Until then, this scenario did not seem possible, because Franco Morbidelli, after all, had his place guaranteed, with no prospects outside the box Yamaha . But that’s precisely what is changing…
Franco Morbidelli would reunite with Ramon Forcada
According to GP One, in fact, the scenario of a return to Razlan Razali, and, above all, Ramon Forcada as chief engineer, would be in the pipeline. We will recall that it is with his two men, and then under the Petronas colors, that Morbidely became world vice-champion in 2020. Now, it is the RNF banner with the Italian sponsor WithU that the Malaysian is displaying. Morbidely, for the investor, would therefore sound quite good, while having an Aprilia RS-GP instead of a Yamaha would allow “Francky” to start from scratch…
The idea put forward by the transalpine site is a duo formed with Miguel Oliveira, which would offer the Noale firm a quality quartet on the MotoGP starting grid: Aleix Espargaró et Maverick Vinales as a factory driver and Franco Morbidelli in company Miguel Oliveira at the RNF satellite. In this case, Raul Fernandez would end up on the floor…
