Yamaha “caught sleeping” and warned “it’s going to take years” to recover
"Come the rule change? Yamaha will be back."

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.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Spo༒rts for a decade covering everything from Ameri꧑can sports, to football, to F1.