With Tech3 joining KTM, only two of the six MotoGP m♉anufacturers will be without a satellite team in 2019.

The ꦿfactories in question, Suzuki and Aprilia, have opposing views on the importance of such a proj🐽ect.

For෴ Suzuki, linked with Marc VDS before the Belgian team's premier-class withdraw, it remains a clear ambition.

"This is an ongo൲ing discussion for us inside the compan🐽y," said Suzuki team manager Davide Brivio.

"As a race team, we would really like to have a satellite team, in order to get much more information and to develop even fur﷽ther the bike and everything.

"But for the company, it’s a big effort because we don’t have ꦓso much resources and not so many people liꦰke maybe our competitors.

"♐Anyway, we are always working. We keep discussing and I hope that we✨ are able to do something for 2020.

"I haven't checked, but now it looks like that mﷺight be difficult, because I think all the satellite teams have a contract🃏 expiring after 2020.

"[A satellite team] is something in our mind, in our 🙈discussions and is a target for Suꦆzuki, but still the decision is to come."

However Aprilia, which supported the idea of a satellite team in the past, is changing tactic🍸🔴s.

"For April🃏ia this is not a primary target," said team boss Romano Albesiano.

"We've decided to in💎vest in t💮he development, in the test team and in doing wild-card participation at the right level.

"This we believe - being focused on the two factory riders plus one high-level te🐎st rider - is the best way to develop for our structure, which is not a 'giant'."

The new approach ✨has seen Aprilia sign Bradley Smit💛h to headline its revamped test and wild-card team, while MotoGP winner Andrea Iannone joins Aleix Espargaro at the race team...