168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez starts the 🌌first of what should be - depending on the status of Valencia - his final two MotoGPs as a GASGAS Tech3 rider at Sepang this weekend.

Then, the former Moto2 champion is set to start🌺 a new chapter as a factory Yamaha MotoGP test and wild-card rider.

Fernandez’s name has been linked to the role for months. However, Andrea Dovizioso emerged as a potential rival after step🌜ping in for a recent private test.

“I don't know if I can confirඣm it. We are missing the last piece, but it looks like I'm going to be riding the Yamaha as a test rider,” Fernandez said when𒈔 asked for an update on his 2025 plans at Sepang on Thursday.

“As I said, [still] missing the co🌜nfirmation, but we are very, very, very close to it… I'm gonna be there.”

The Spaniard, 27, added that he was pushing to make his M1 debut ꧂a🐷t the Valencia test but, even without this week’s shock flooding, it was looking difficult.

“We don't know i♏f we are going to race [at Valencia] even, but the Valencia test will be hard,” he said.

“It's something that I've been asking [for] because it's important to jump straigꦐht away from the KTM to Yamaha to see the difference.

“But they [Yamaha] h🐠ave a lot of work also with the Pramac team, so it will be difficult.

“But before the year ends, I will have a test. Maybe ♔not in Valencia, but another track.

“And then I’ll be back here very soon,” he added, referring to 2025 pre-season testing, which begins with the Sepang shake♛down on January 31st.

Yamaha's current factory test rider, Cal Crutchlow, has been out of action for much of this year due to complications following hand surgery.