At Yamaha, in addition to focusing on a 2023 opus of the M1, which will have to be up to the task after the aspirations of its spearhead Fabio Quartararo were disappointed this year, we apparently seem parasitized by this question of the lost satellite team , and which must be found in 2024. However, the omens are not favorable for such an outcome. Contractually, the designated target, the VR46, is linked until 2024 to a Ducati factory that its riders, Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini, logically adore. Only the Gresini team, released from Borgo Panigale at the end of 2023, would be on the market. But to seduce, you still need a good motorcycle. Meanwhile, even within Iwata's ranks, the question of fielding two more M1s is being debated. The RNF experience thus brought no added value and the same could even be said of Franco Morbidelli in the official box…
But all the same, we cannot bring ourselves to present only one machine on the MotoGP starting grid. Even if, in fact, it is indeed the only fabio quartararo who runs the shop and saves the honor at the outposts of the troops at the head of which Lynn Jarvis strives to keep up appearances.
Is he unanimously unanimous in his ranks? Or even… On this second team story, in the past Tech3 and Petronas changed to RNF extension, two entities which ended up turning their backs on it because they were tired of being considered as customers, when they wanted to become real partners, Lynn Jarvis does not even convince in principle. A situation that the chief mechanic of Fabio Quartararo, Diego Gubellini, clearly reveals by commenting, in comments spotted on Motoracing : " not having a satellite team will not be not an advantage for me and it will not be worse than this year ". And he adds: “ if you look at Yamaha's results this year, only Fabio was able to fight and win. Multiple riders on the same bike are useful if they can be more or less competitive ».
« Yamaha still hasn't explained to me what really happened during the Valencia test«
A cold assessment, but unstoppable and all the more so since it is even the teammate of fabio quartararo within the factory structure to not really be useful to the common cause. So two more protagonists in a team that will have everything to discover about the M1... Besides, if we want to start at the beginning, we would already need a Yamaha attractive enough to arouse vocations. Now, this is not the damp squib seen at last Valencia test who will light any fuse...
A missed appointment with 2023 which left its mark: “ they still haven't explained to me what really happened during the Valencia tests » still regrets the tricolor champion who wonders: “ where have we gained anything? A good question that I don't know the answer to. ". We will recall that he renewed his lease until the end of 2024 on the basis of numerous promises made and which we will now have to keep. The start of the school year will already be a great moment in the next MotoGP season.
