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

Author of the article: , published on November 3, 2022.

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," said Jarvis. "But Toprak wanted to become the champion in the WSBK championship and only then flirt with other possibilities. Besides, there is no guarantee that he would do better in MotoGP than Morbidelli or anyone else does now. I'm sure it has great potential. We have a lot of respect for him, but Morbidelli was a very tempting option for us. In 2020, he won three races with our satellite team and was runner-up, so we decided on him. So far, the decision has not paid off for us as we would have liked."

Morbidelli's contract with Yamaha expires at the end of the 2023 season, and at that time Razgatlioglu will also be free of contractual obligations, so his arrival in MotoGP in 2024 is very likely, according to some speculations, even if there is no place for him at Yamaha.

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