Yamaha respond as Toprak Razgatlioglu deadline expires
Yamaha reveal when they plan to decide upon 2026 r♒ider line-up

A self-imposed deadline to sort 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Toprak Razgatlioglu’s future,💞 by his manager, has expired without an answer.
Razgatlioglu is flirting with MotoGP manufacturers and admits he wants to make the switch from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Championship.
Honda and Yamaha a🌞re credited with an interest in bringing Razgatlioglu to MotoGP, while BMW haven’t given up hope of tying him to a new deal in WorldSBK.
Paolo Pavesio, who replaced Lin Jarvis at the top of Yamaha Motor Racing this year, has history with Razgatl💟ioglu.
Pavesio worked acro🧜ss the manufacturer’s WorldSBK project, which helped Razgatlioglu to his first title in 2021.
Razgatlioglu’s manager Kenan Sofuoglu wanted his client’s 2026 contract agreed by mid-May, at the latest, a timeframe w💖hich has now expired.
Yamaha to decide 'what we want by the summer break'
Yamaha are also not willing to play ball with deadlines that do nꦚot suit their existing MotoGP riders.
“We will draw conclusions about what we have and what we want by the sum🌠mer break,” Pavesio told Speed🌃week.
“That would be too ear✨ly for our current drivers. Especially towards Miguel Oliveira it would be very unfair to put a line under it now. His injury was more serious than we first thought.
"I've known Kenan for six years and Toprak very well. No matter what the future holds, winning the title with him at Mandalika in 2021 was the highlight ♋of my motorsport career.
"Projects ar✅e prepared by manufacturers, these are then presented to the drivers via the managers. I know Kꦿenan's approach to the media very well, but he talks differently to us.
“Fortunately, things✤ are going a little differently than he portrays to the media."
Pavesio said about Razgatlioglu: "He is exওceptionally talented in the things he 𝓰has done so far.
"And there is ge♋neral curiosity in the industry about what he can do in MotoGP.”

Razgatlioglu 🌳notoriously failed to impress Yamaha when he tested their MotoGP bike, after winnin💦g the WorldSBK title with them.
However, he has won another title on ⛄a BMW where his eye-catching style could not be ignored.
Yamaha’s MotoGP factory riders are contracted u💙ntil the end of 2026, but Pramac’s Jack Miller is on a deal which runs out this year.
However, Miller has shown glimpses of his exper🌸ience and talent since swapping KTM for Pramac.
His role in develop﷽ing the wider project at Yamaha is also a crucial, and valua💫ble, trait.
Razgatlioglu could yet stay at BMW, despite his🐻 manager’s proclamations about a dream to switch series.
BMW have reportedly been drawing up a short-list of🐻 riders,ꦛ and have spoken to their managers, as a Plan B if they lose Razgatlioglu.

James was a sports🀅 journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.