Massimo Meregalli, team manager of the Movistar Yamaha team, explained in the columns of La Gazzetta dello Sport that the Iwata factory was preparing a much improved M1.
That's for 2017, even if the machine will be tested in Sepang at the end of November during a private test. But first, we still have to finish 2016, and in the best possible way.
This is why the man who took over from Davide Brivio at Yamaha is particularly benevolent with a Jorge Lorenzo which could be one of the keys in the event of a title possibility for Valentino Rossi : “At Yamaha, the philosophy is that there are no racing instructions as long as the mathematics gives a rider a chance. But if he is definitively excluded from the fight for the title, we could ask him (to play the game) and I will not be surprised if Jorge does it. »
Either. Honestly, with Jorge Lorenzo leaving for Ducati, we think more like Matteo Flamigni that it is not a foregone conclusion, and even that it is not desirable, but the Italian still tries to be persuasive: “ Even if he leaves us at the end of the season, Jorge will continue to test all the new products, except those which concern exclusively 2017."
Not sure that this is really enough to convince the Mallorcan pilot…
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