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

Options m꧟ight be limited but the VR46 Academy graduate could get a help🐻ing hand from old friends.

Asked if he wou🌱ld stay in MotoGP, rather than take a rumour🐠ed Yamaha WorldSBK seat, he said: “Yes.”    

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

Marco Bezzecchi’s wish for a 2024-spec Desmosedici next year could result in him bein💎g relocated from the Mooney VR46 team to Pramac Racing, creating an opening alongside Luca Mari🌸ni which Morbidelli may be perfectly suited to.

Morbidelli was asked if it was his decision, or Yamaha’s, to part ways and he answered: “Well, this is a matter t꧃hat you have to discuss with Lin Jarvis! 

“But when you decide to part ways, it is not always𝄹 unilateral. Things didn’t work anyway, l💞ast year, for a certain reason. And this year for a reason.

“The whole group is not pr🔜ogre🀅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 sea𓂃sons. I’m still young, motivated, I have a lot to give꧟, I want the chance to fight for a championship and to win races. 

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

He reflected o🐼n 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 tౠo 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 need a✅ change.

“Some change can bring different energy to both parties. I wi✃sh the best for myself and for Yamaha, as well.”