The 2021 MotoGP champion is among the bulk of the riders on the grid 🙈who will enter the final year of their contracts in 2ꦜ024.

That means 2025 could be a fasci♊nating year for the rider market, with every manufacturer able t▨o offer vacant bikes to the best available contenders.

Quartararo, still hot proper🔴ty despite a year of struggling with Yamaha, would have the option to look elsewhere for a competitive bikไe.

Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha team director, was asked if he fears that Marc Marquez’s exit from Honda could have ♔a knock-on effect throughout the paddock.

“I’m more worried👍 about 🔯what 2025 will be like,” he told .

“In that case, we will have to convince him with the pe💙rformance of the bike and not with the monetary aspect.”

Meregalli i🌌nsisted there will be no shock departure for next season: “At the moment, I don’t see Fabio in the situation of breaking a contract.

“Anythiꦦng can happeꦕn, but we haven’t perceived this.”

Pa🍒rt of Yamaha’s masterplan to return to winning ways is to arm themselves with a satellite tea🥂m.

This year they have only two bikes on the grid, compared to eight Ducatis, fou🔯r KTMs, four Hondas and four Aprilias.

“For Yamaha it is very important to have it and we will do everything for 202𓄧5,♏” Meregalli said.

“The fact of bein👍g with only two riders becomes complicated because you fꦐind yourself with little data available.

“Fortunately t🥂he format of the weekend has changed, because before it wasꦚ a problem, given that we had no way to work on the bike and every session was a qualifying session.”

Valentino Rossi’s VR46 team remain an option t🌼o join Yamaha’s side. They are contracted to Ducati for 2024 but have spoken to the Japanese manufacturer, for whom Rossi still works as an ambassador.

Meregalli insists that Quartararo can be🌞 equipped wi✤th a winning bike by 2025.

“Thi꧒s is our goal. Victory is not a quick thing to achieve,” he said.

“But I think we will be half-way between the🌌 cꦅurrent position and the top positions.”