Petronas Yamaha team manager Wilco Zeelenberg feels that if the 2020 MotoGP season starts any later than May, as now looks inevitable, it would be 'impossible' to run all of the remaining rounds.
While the timing of the announcement confirming Fabio Quartararo’s promotion to the factory Yamaha team from 2021 comes as a shock, given this year’s pre-season testing hasn’t even started yet, the French rider’s selection is the least surprising part of the shake-up.
Following two months away from his Yamaha YZR-M1, Jorge Lorenzo left even his own team manager impressed with his pace out-of-the-box as 2011 MotoGP testing kicked off at Sepang...