Yamaha “caught sleeping” and warned “it’s going to take years” to recover

"Come the rule change? Yamaha will be back."

Cal Crutchlow
Cal Crutchlow

Yamaha have been warn🐼ed that their return to MotoGP’s summit is nꦛot a short-term fix.

The Japanese manufacturer has been o𝕴n a steep decline since Fabio Quartararo captured the 2021 championship.

Noises coming out of Yamaha have been positive lately, with the acquisition of the Pramac satellite team for 2025 seen as a h🎀uge boost for the development.

“They are working hard. But🧔 it’s g🦩oing to take years,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

G🌊avin Emmett said about Paolo Pavesio, the new managing director: “He’s a good person to get in🌳volved. He speaks so well.

“With Miguel Oliveira, with Jack Miller, the inv🎃estment and the planning is there.”

Hodgson praised Yamaha: “They are doin♏g everything right. They are trying to make up for lost time and lost ground, and it will take years.

“They 🔯can’t do anything more now, I am so impressed. It’s full attack mode, it’s so positive.

“The conver♓sations I’ve had with Cal Crutchlow - on camera and off camera - from years ago when he was still racing… t♛hey were caught sleeping at the wheel.

“But they’ve responded. I don’t think they’ll be in the mix at all next year, with what they’ll br﷽ing▨.

“But come the rule change? Yamaha will be 💝back. They will win cꦛhampionships in MotoGP, absolutely.”

Michael Laverty said: “Everything they are de🌞veloping now for the 1000cc era, it wilꦆl translate.

“Many manufacturers lear💜ned a lesson when they went ♛to 800cc and changed drastically - Ducati stole a march, Honda built a bike. It didn’t work for anyone.

“The bikes 💞w🃏ill look narrower - they are quite wide now - and that will help with safety. But we’ve got the current format for two years.”

Yamaha will abandon their&n🔴bsp;inline-four engine for🅘 a V4 in 2027, Motorsport have reported.

Their new satellite team, Pramac, hav🐈e confirmed Oliveira will ride for them next season. They are set to name Miller as his teammate.

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