With Monster Yamaha team-mates 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins among 19 MotoGP riders out o🤪f contract this year, plus three satellite teams, Lin Jarvis expects the 2024 season to be ‘super com💯plex off the track’.

“You have 18 or 19 riders without contr𒐪acts for next year. There a꧋re four that do, which I think are Binder, I suppose Acosta, Zarco, Marini,” Jarvis said at the Sepang test.

Publicly at least, star rookie Acosta has only a one-year contract 𝓰at KTM, although the factory surely has options on his services🐬 for 2025.

Jarvis continued: “So it's going to be super exciting on the track, to watch the races, and it’s going to be super complex off the track, because y♌ou also have three satellite teams without contracts signed [with manufac﷽turers] for 2025, which are obviously Pramac, LCR and VR46.”

Pramac is Ducati’s official satellite team, using the latest machinery and riders that are signed by the factory. LCR h🍨as the same status at Honda. VR46 is therefore the least attached on paper, using year-old Ducati machinery and riders signed only by the team.

Valentino Rossi’s own Yamaha history is also obvious, and 𝐆he remains a brand ambassador, but it🦩 would be a leap of faith in competitive terms to drop the Desmosedicis at this stage.

But the pr🍌iority for Jarvis, managing direct𓂃or and team principal of Yamaha’s MotoGP project, will arguably be to retain the services of 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo.

"I'm 100 percent focused on the job. I think [Yamaha] are doing a big ste𒈔p compared to the previous years. For my future, I🐠 will have to take my time but of course, it will be a really important decision," Quartararo said.

Winless since mid-2022, Yamaha currentl𒅌y doesn’t have a strong hand to play i🔴n terms of results.

However, Jarvis is confident that the investment and changes introduced in recent years - including signing Luca Marmorini to bꦛoost engine performance, Dallara🌠 to work on aerodynamics and recent key staff from Ducati - not to mention new access to technical concessions, will pay off this season.

“We must come back to frequent podiums and I think we can w🍸in some races,” he said.

‘You sign a contract for the bike you expect to have in the future’

But signing new deals with Quartararo, 💙Rins and a satellite team will also depend on “convincing them of our intention, capacity and skiജlls for the future.”

“Both for a satellite [team] and for our own riders - we need to be com⭕petitive. And🌟 if we are not 100% competitive this year, we need to be convincing that with our investments, we are making progress,” Jarvis explained.

“Because if you sign a contract, you don't sign a contract for the bike that you have ♐[now]. You sign it for the bike that you expect that you will have in the future.”

Citing the example of Lewis Hamilton in F1 - who surpris🎶ed by leaving McLaren for Mercedes in 2012, and has now agreed on a shock switch to Ferrari for 2025 - Jarvis hopes riders and a satellite team will see Yamaha's future potential:

“It's interesting looking at Lewis Hamilton, because it's a big ballsy change that he's making and I do remember, and he quoted it this week himself, that he ꦓmade a big change in 13 when he went to Mercedes.

“When he went to Mercedes, a lot of people, including me, thought ‘Really? Are you sure?’ Obviously, he knew something and he had some confidence that they were putting in place what was necessary to be competitive i💜n the future.

“So the most important thing for the rid✤er choice and satellite team is to co🅰nvince them of our intention, capacity and skills for the future.”

While rider deals potentially have longer deadlines, sigꦡning a satellite team - absent from Yamaha’s MotoGP line-up since RNF switched to Aprilia for 2023 - needs to be done by “mid-season”.

“In the worst-case scenario, the summer break. But in my opinion, sometime in June, maybe A♑ssen, is about the ri▨ght timing," Jarvis said.