There may no longer be a wall separating the two sides of the factory Yamaha MotoGP pits, as had been presen🍃t last time Jorge Lor༺enzo and Valentino Rossi shared a garage.

But that doesn't mean Yamaha now suddenly has one bi♑g open pit box. Instead thi🔴s is what the Factory Yamaha pits looked like at last week's Sepang test, where a portable 'screen' was placed between the two sides of the garage.

The picture above is of Rossi's side. The view from ൲Lorenzo's side, which shows the screen running down the ꩵcentre of the garage when not used to conceal a bike, can be seen below.

L𒁏orenzo had been against the original wall - required for the 2008 season due to different tyre brands, but then kept in place after the 2009 control tyre ruling.

But both riders seemed happy for a more open garage this time around. Speaking at Indianapolis last year, Lorenzo commented: "I always say the wall is a stupid thing. It doesn🍰't make sense for anything. No wall is OK for me and I think for Vale this time."

"No, no, nothing," Rossi ha༒d replied when asked about a wall in 201༒3. "We will be very close with Jorge if he agrees! For me, no problem."

Unlike in 2010, their last season together before Rossi left for Duca♚ti, data sharing is e𝓡xpected between the factory M1 riders this year.

UPDATE: Writing on Twitter, Rossi's mechanic Alex Briggs (@Alex__Briggs) confirmed there is no wall this year, adding "we just leave [the screens] in tꦺhe middle" of the garage when not needed to hide the ꦫbikes from photographers.

His full description of the above pict🌼ure is a𓄧s follows:

"There is no wall in our garage. What ppl can see are movable privacy screens. In testing we pull the garage door down 2 change parts but if JL is still testing or vice versa we use the screens to shield what we are doing from photographe💦rs. When both doors are up we just leave them in ﷽the middle during testing. In the actual picture on wuqian0821.com we have a bike without a cowling behind the screens."