Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli is honest about his future amid links to BMW
🌳Andrea L♌ocatelli addresses whether he will stay with Yamaha in 2026

Andrea Locatelli has become a key part of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Championship rider market.
The Yamaha rider is out of contract at the end of this season, and has reportedly been 𝐆identified by ri💮vals.
BMW have included him o🔥n a short-list of potential replacements for Toprak Razgatlioglu, shoꦉuld they lose the WorldSBK champion who 🗹is searching for a MotoGP ride.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Locatelli said: “When I arrived at Yamaha, I think my life c🥀hanged a bit because I immediately won WorldSSP in 2020.
“We built my career w♛ith Yamaha, so I’d like to continue with them and maybe one day, be someone important for Yamaha.
“I feel like we have tꦛhis possibility with Yama🎃ha but, at the same time, I need to look at my career.
“We need to look at everything and ▨understand which is the🎐 best option for me and my future.
“At the moment, I 🀅only want to think about riding the bike, giving my all, and winning with Yamaha.”
Andrea Locatelli 'never lost focus' for WorldSBK win

Pata Maxus Yamaha rid🥂er Locatelli won Race 2 at Assen, in the absence of injured teammate Jonathan Rea.
It came in Locatelli’s 154th WorldSBK race, the longest any rider has ever go🧸ne b🍌efore a maiden win.
“Finally, w🍌e got the first victory at Assen in Race 2,” said Locatelli.
“I think it’s a good moment for me, my career,𒈔 the whole team because we were beliꦛeving for many, many years.
“With Yamaha, we never lost the focus. We were workinꦕg really hard every weekend and finally at Assen, we got my first vic𝓀tory.
“I think we deserved it, and 🦩it was a good moment, especially at this point in the season.
“I want to continue to trust and push hard because I need more. I🍸 feel like I’m a bit angry, so I’ll keep pushing like this and try to do more.
“This was quite strange because I saw he was slowing down after the🧸 finish line. I was thinking that he thinks we’ve already taken the cheq▨uered flag, because in the past, we’ve seen some races where this happened.
“I didn’t lose my focus. I was behind him and pushing full throttle until the end, because Bautista pushed me ꦏall race.”
The fifth rou♏nd of 2025, the Czech WorldSBK, is this wee🔯kend.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports fo🍨r a decade covering everything from American sports, to football🌃, to F1.