Oliveira is contracted until the end of 2024 on a factory deal, however, interest from Honda has been building in recent da🌟ys.

Along with Maverick Vinales, Oliveira has become Honda’s mꦗain target as they look to replace Marc Marquez.

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But Oliveira’s team owner at RNF, Razlan Razali, was very vocal about the state of play regarding Oliveira and his contract: "He has aꦐ contract with Aprilia, a solid one,” said Razali when speaking to MotoGP.com. “So he will still be with us in 2024. 

“There's no such thing as a clause that says that if he has a factory꧟ offer, he can leave Aprilia or RNF. There's no such thing. As far as we know, he's🐻 staying with us next year."

Oliveira was subsequently asked about those comments after Practice 2, and in particular about the no release clause♑, to which he replied: “That’s not true.”

In terms of the on-track action, Oliveira ಌsecured his spot in Q2 after finishing P2 with the seventh best time.

“The soft [rear] was good,” began Oliveira. “There were a lot of yellow flags so ꦫI was getting a little bit impatient to get my lap. 

“But finally I could do a clean lap. I didn’t know if it was enough beca🧸use 30.4s was really fast and I did a 31.2 and was a bit far.

“But happy to make it through. Still some work to do for tomorrow 🦩morning pace wise.”

Mandalika appears to be a good circuit for A🍌prilia as Aleix Espargaro led a factory 1ꦉ02 ahead of Vinales.

Both riders, alon൩g with Marco Bezzecchi, bꦬroke the official lap record in the process and Oliveira said the layout is favourable to the RS-GP23.

“I knew yesterday that we shouldn’t be worried about the layout because the layout suits many of the aspect of our b꧃ike.”