Yamaha will dispense with Morbidelli when this season ends,♕ replacing him with Alex Rins for 2024, meaning he is now searching for a new seat.

Options might be li♕mited but the VR46 🤡Academy graduate could get a helping hand from old friends.

Asked if he would stay in MotoGP, rather⛎ than take a rumoured Yamaha WorldSBK seat, he said: “Yes.”    

Then asked if he would move to Valentino Rossi’s Mooney VR46 team, he said: “It’s still too early, I cannot go deep in🌼to detail yet.”

Marco Bezzecchi’s wish for a 2024-spec Desmosedici next year could result in h๊im being relocated from the Mooney VR46 team to Pramac Racing, creating an opening alongside Luca Marini which Morbidelli may be perfe꧋ctly suited to.

Morbidelli was asked if it was his decision, or Yamaha’s, to part ways and he answered: “Well, this🍸 is a matter that you have to discuss wi✅th Lin Jarvis! 

“But when you decide to part ways, it is not alwไays unilateral. Things didn’t work anyway, last year, for a certain reason. And this year for a reason.

“The who🦩le group is not progre🉐ssing so, for sure, a change is needed.

“I hope a change will do good for everybody.

“I believe that I had my chances of fighting for the championship in 2020, then I had two complicated seasons. I’m still young, motivated, I have a lot to give, I want the chance to fight for a championship and to win raꦛces. 

“Iꩲ’m planning on doing that. I’m planning on bouncing back, starting from the second half of this season. It is achievable. It can ཧbring good energy.”

He reflected on his time at Yamaha: “It has been quite a journey, we did some great results together, even though it was a satellite🥂 team, 💝I had the chance to fight for a championship with Yamaha so I will always remember that. It was a pleasure to join the factory team. 

“Sometimes the reasons are not very clear but you ne🤡ed a change.

“Some change can bring different ener൲gy to both parties. I🌺 wish the best for myself and for Yamaha, as well.”