Andrea Dovizioso can be again on a MotoGP bike at this week’s Sepang Shakedown take a look at.
He has been known as up as a take a look at rider by Yamaha so as to add to their ranks.
Yamaha and Honda, as per the concessions guidelines, are allowed to subject their 4 race riders along with their take a look at riders on the Shakedown.
The opposite three factories are restricted to simply their take a look at riders and rookie racers, till the official Sepang take a look at subsequent week.
Dovizioso’s reappearance on a Yamaha comes after he hung out testing their M1 within the latter half of final season, changing the injured Cal Crutchlow.
Intriguingly, his addition to the Shakedown prompts questions on whether or not Yamaha would possibly debut their V4 engine.
Yamaha are nonetheless working an inline-four-cylinder engine however have admitted that they’re growing a V4, to maneuver in the identical path as their rivals.
The Shakedown take a look at is untelevised and behind-closed-doors so would possibly permit Yamaha a possibility to quietly take a look at the brand new engine.
Yamaha manufacturing unit rider Alex Rins beforehand claimed that they hoped to check the V4, with Dovizioso on the bike, in December.
However Rins mentioned that plan fell by means of as a result of the engine wasn’t prepared.
This weekend’s Shakedown, with Dovizioso becoming a member of take a look at rider Augusto Fernandez, manufacturing unit riders Rins and Fabio Quartararo, and Pramac’s Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira, is the producer’s subsequent potential probability to check the V4.
Yamaha don’t anticipate to race with a V4 engine till the latter a part of 2025, on the earliest.
