The 2018 season is not yet over and the 2019 and 2020 seasons are still ideas, and yet, in MotoGP, we are already talking about the 2021 campaign. So it's not just the bikes that go fast in this category. THE makers Also. At Yamaha, the company is teetering on its foundations at the moment due to this ongoing series. 22 races without success. Renovation is necessary since the masterpiece is in danger, and the client appears to be a certain Valentino Rossi.
An essential position as the person responsible for tuning forks in the field Lynn Jarvis had already clarified by admitting that the Doctor was at the heart of the Yamaha MotoGP project. A situation which is confirmed again with this sentence from the same Jarvis : “if we are asked, we will provide the VR46 team with motorcycles while continuing with the SIC-Petronas team and our official team ».
This is clear, and all the more clear as the points on the starting grid will be up for grabs when the current MarcVDS adventure with Honda ends at the end of this year. This will therefore give us six M1s in the running from 2021. Which is not a first since, at the time of Forward Racing in 2014 and 2015, this workforce was already a reality.
Certainly, but we are not on the same career plan... We will recall that Yamaha signed a three-year contract in March 2016 as official partner and supplier of the VR46 junior team. Together they organize the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, where young riders can improve their skills…
