Label: Lin Jarvis

Apr142023 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Jarvis on Yamaha's racing line-up next season: We want Franco to stay

In an interview before the start of the race weekend in Austin, Lin Jarvis emphasized that Yamaha wanted to extend the collaboration with Franco Morbidelli, thus denying rumors that they were trying to place Toprak Razgatlıoğlu alongside Fabio Quartararo in the team. At the beginning of the week, the Turk tested a Yamaha MotoGP motorcycle in Jerez. He completed a total of 116 laps in two days at the Jerez circuit, and his fastest time was 1,4 seconds slower than Dani Pedrosa and seven tenths of a second faster than Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow. Franco Morbidelli, whose contract expires at the end of the season, is said to be under a lot of pressure due to poor results in the past two seasons. As the main candidate for his possible replacement, Razgatlıoğlu and Dirk are mentioned

Jan192023 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Yamaha most likely also in 2024 without a satellite team, more possibilities for the 2025 season

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According to Lin Jarvis, the chances of Yamaha having a satellite team again next season are small, as they have to overcome some obstacles in the Iwata team. There are much greater possibilities for something like this in 2025. Before this season, the Yamaha team was left without a satellite team for the first time in the era of the MotoGP class after the RNF team decided to cooperate with Aprilia. During the winter break, there was a lot of talk about the possibility of Yamaha's early cooperation with Valentino Rossi's VR46 Racing Team. But the Italian team confirmed that they will honor their contract with Ducati, which binds them until the end of 2024. ." "For us j

Nov32022 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Yamaha: Morbidelli's place in the team should be offered to Razgatlioglu

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Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis says that, given Franco Morbidelli's uncompetitive form, it would have been wiser for Yamaha to offer the seat alongside Fabio Quartararo last year to Toprak Razgatlioglu instead of the Italian from the VR46 academy. After solid results on the Petronas Yamaha motorcycle, Morbidelli was promoted to the factory team alongside Fabio Quartararo. But the Italian, who signed a two-year deal, has had his worst season in MotoGP this year, so Jarvis believes the Turk, who was only interested in moving to MotoGP if he had a factory bike at his disposal, should be offered at least a one-year deal. "In July 2021, Toprak should be offered a place in the factory team," Jarvis said. "But Toprak wanted to become the champion in the WSBK championship and only then flirt with other possibilities

May302022 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Razgatlioglu was left without a chance to move into the MotoGP class for the 2023 season

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Yamaha has confirmed after the split with the RNF satellite team that Toprak Razgatlıoğlu will not get a chance in the MotoGP class next season. The Turkish racer has recently been linked by many to the transition to the elite motorcycle class. The title of Superbike World Champion last season further fueled these rumors. Razgatlıoğlu will test Yamaha's MotoGP motorcycle next month. A test that has been planned for some time as a reward for his success in the Superbike class. In addition, this is a great opportunity to test your competitiveness before possibly moving to the MotoGP class. After the RNF team in Mugello announced that they were concluding a partnership with Yamaha at the end of the season and would use Aprilia motorcycles in the future, Li

May22022 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Jarvis critical of Morbidelli: We expect more

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After last year's knee injury, Franco Morbidelli is still not in the right shape this year. How far he is currently behind his teammate Fabio Quartararo is proven by the very look at the overall standings. While the Frenchman increased his lead over his rivals with a second-place finish in Jerez, Morbidelli slipped to sixteenth overall with fifteenth place in the race. After only six races, he is 71 points behind his team rival. The Italian recorded only one ranking in the top ten this year when he finished seventh in Mandalika. It should not be forgotten that this is a racer who was only 2020 points away from the world title in 13. Even the fact that Quartararo is the only racer to compete with Yamaha cannot be an excuse for him. His result

Jan42021 by Aljaž CentaNo Comments

Yamaha is confident that it has fixed engine reliability issues

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Yamaha is confident in the reliability of the engines for the 2021 season, as the material it used in the 2020 season was not durable enough and Yamaha racers had quite a few problems. The rule that teams are not allowed to change their engines from the 2020 season to the 2021 season makes Yamaha’s job very difficult. Racers Maverick Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Fabio Quartararo, who used an engine made for the 2020 season, had the most problems. They had the most problems in the middle of the season, where they also started losing the primacy in MotoGP, which they gained at the beginning of the season. For corrections throughout the season, Yamaha was also penalized with points deductions. The penalty did not hit the racers either, which raised a lot of dust among the other racers. The supplier of the current parts did not provide enough quality material, so they wanted to

Dec222020 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Yamaha: Lorenzo would be a great test racer

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Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis is still convinced that Jorge Lorenzo would be an excellent test racer if their test program had not been curtailed by the crisis over the Covid-19 virus epidemic. Lorenzo finished racing at the end of the 2019 season, and during the winter break he returned as a test racer to Yamaha camp, where they were planning a European test team to help develop the motorcycle. But the outbreak of the coronavirus limited travel around the world, and as a result, Yamaha’s plans fell through. Lorenzo sat on the motorcycle only twice, in February in Sepang, and then only in October in Portugal, where he did not show competitive form. The lack of testing has harmed Yamaha, Jarvis is convinced, which in his opinion is evidenced by fluctuations in the form of their racers. “We had a new motorcycle

Nov232020 by Aljaž CentaNo Comments

Rossi's emotional letter from Yamaha

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Valentino Rossi is saying goodbye to the Yamaha factory team after this season and is coming to Petronas Yamaha for one season, where he will swap seats with Fabio Quartararo. After the last race of the 2020 season in Portugal, an emotional farewell followed in his garage. In total, Rossi spent 15 seasons at Yamaha and achieved remarkable success. This year’s result of 12 in the overall standings was one of the worst for the Italian in his career, but we must add that he had a lot of pitches with corona virus infection and falls and the technical breakdowns he experienced in the second half of the season. However, in the end he did not lag far behind his teammate Maverick Vinales, who was still fighting for the title of world champion until a few races before the end. When Rossi returned to Yamaha’s garage for the last time, it was a few h

Apr282020 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Jarvis: With Vinales and Quartararo, we can beat Marquez

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Yamaha general manager Lin Jarvis gave his view on the factory lineup for next season in an interview. He also spoke about the future of Valentino Rossi. Jarvis already has a detailed plan on how to return the title to his team after (for now) four dry years. In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, he presented a look at the plans of the Iwate team for the 2021 season. In this, at least in the factory team, there will no longer be Valentino Rossi, who will be replaced by Fabio Quartararo. The Yamaha team filled the headlines at the beginning of the calendar year after making a number of decisions in just a few days. The first in a row was the contract extension for another two seasons with Maverick Vinales. Only a day later, however, it was officially confirmed that his new teammate would be the best

Feb82020 by Tomaž StrgaršekNo Comments

Lorenzo on the track tomorrow too

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Yamaha has confirmed today that Jorge Lorenzo will be performing on the last day of pre-season testing in Sepang. For the official MotoGP class website, this was confirmed by team leader Lin Jarvis. "Our plan is for Jorge to perform tomorrow. His main task here is not to test the motorcycle for us, but to ride for himself to regain his true feelings. It's been three years since he last sat on a Yamaha motorcycle. So we want for tomorrow, to focus mainly on his feelings and feel good on the motorcycle again. His real test work for him doesn't start until April. " Lorenzo set an eighth time on the last day of the shakedown test on Tuesday and completed 46 laps.