In the Yamaha MotoGP scheme, everything seems well oiled and perfectly in its place. Fabio Quartararo will move from the Petronas satellite team to the official team while Valentino Rossi will go the opposite way if he wants to continue his career. For the second handlebars in the color of the Malaysian oil tanker, there is even a Jorge Lorenzo possible, for a reunion between the two former champions which would be a landmark. Certainly, but the boss of the Petronas team is called Razlan Razali, and his position is not that of someone who does what he is told to do. In an intervention in Indonesia, he wanted to put the points on the i…
To properly position Razlan Razali in the Grand Prix landscape, it must be remembered that he is the team manager Yamaha petronas MotoGP. In fact, there are three teams: MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3. In addition to being the director of the circuit of Sepang and other functions in Malaysia. So it has weight. Even in the face of Yamaha for which there remains a customer who pays ruby on the nail for the latest M1. This will be the case for fabio quartararo in 2020, as long as the season starts... However, the customer, at this level, is king.
Razlan Razali hears like everyone else that in 2021, his team would be made up of Valentino Rossi and even Jorge Lorenzo. By taking note of this, he decided in Indonesia to remind people who is who and who does what at home... He had already warned that no negotiations were underway with Valentino Rossi. Here he drives the point home, revealing the ambitions of Jorge Lorenzo…To better calm them down… “ We want talented young drivers. We also know the wishes of Valentino Rossi and Lorenzo, who want to come to the team. But, for us, in principle, we want to promote young pilots. So we already have several in mind, including Xavi Virgo. »
He then drives the point home: “ honestly, for MotoGP there are riders we are watching at the moment, including Franco Morbidelli. If he does well this year, we will keep him for next year. Otherwise we will look at Xavi Virgo from our Moto2 team. If he does something special this year, he will be ready for our MotoGP team next year. We also have two or three other Moto2 riders on the radar »
Red et Lorenzo therefore do not have open doors with a red carpet rolled out from Razlan Razali with a certain political weight in the paddock. A clear message to those interested and to Yamaha…
