Lin Jarvis may not yet be a happy man at this stage of the season, but he is certainly relieved. He succeeded, in fact, in keeping the best current MotoGP rider, World Champion Fabio Quartararo, in his Yamaha lair, and for two more years. At the same time, the energy drink with the well-known M also signed a new lease, the duration of which was not specified. All that's missing is the satellite team... But there, things are stuck. You can't win on all counts...
Lynn Jarvis et Yamaha definitely owe a lot to fabio quartararo which allows the Iwata brand to maintain the illusion that it still plays the leading roles in MotoGP. Because if you remove the French from the landscape, you uproot the tree that hides a forest so dense that Franco Morbidelli et Andrea Dovizioso got lost there.
A situation that the Director General of Yamaha in Grand Prix does not deny: “ For next year I see the opportunity to focus on our bike, which is not the best at the moment. Our rider is the best, our bike is not ". This is clear and definitively reveals that Yamaha will not have a satellite team in 2023.
On this absence, which is unprecedented for the brand at this level of competition, Lynn Jarvis put into perspective: “ having a satellite team with this year's results doesn't change much. Unfortunately Andrea Dovizioso has never had a feeling with the bike and Darryn Binder is very young… The importance of the satellite team is to have more information on the bike, but the riders have to go fast. Otherwise the information is not useful ". He talks about the team like this RNF extension, who will play the card Aprilia and in 2023 2024.
Yamaha VR46s? At best in 2025 according to Lin Jarvis
The Englishman also closes the door to what the unconditional fans of Valentino Rossi hoped deep down: a partnership with the team VR46, currently equipped with Ducati efficient. However, Jarvis leaves said door ajar on Motoracing... " We can imagine having contact with them in MotoGP. At the moment this is not possible, but we are doing a lot of things with the VR46, Valentino Rossi is our ambassador. There is a lot of motivation, but now is not the time ". Close the ban!
