The crisis installed in the official Yamaha box, specifically on the side of Maverick Viñales, will end with the total and imminent divorce between the Spanish rider and the house of the tuning forks. Both parties have agreed not to fulfill the contract year that should still bind them for 2022 and Mack has signed in Assen with Aprilia to ride with them from next season.
Fed up, dissatisfied and disappointed with each other for a long time, the last German GP was the final trigger for a break that they will make official soon. Maverick already made clear his dissatisfaction with Yamaha after the Sachsenring race, where he finished last, openly showing his disenchantment by pointing out that the repeated answer he was given to his questions was a permanent "I don't know". Far from getting off the donkey, he reaffirmed his dissatisfaction upon arrival at Assen, which remained latent in his press conference on Thursday. Already on Friday, his digital meeting with journalists was canceled when a meeting with his team was extended in which the rupture was finalized. And yesterday, Saturday, as if nothing had happened, he took pole position on the basis that the bike had regained grip.
At Yamaha, meanwhile, they have their backs covered in the official Monster Energy box, thanks to the good season Fabio Quartararo is having, and today they see in the Roses rider more of a problem than a hope of good results. The team did not like the statements of their rider after finishing last in the Sachsenring race, they are tired of so many changes in the box (he is the third chief mechanic) and they will save a lot of money with his departure, because Maverick's fixed salary is close to two figures per season.
Maverick, for his part, is not tied by money to stay at Yamaha. He has already earned more than enough and has no problem in racing in exchange for a lower salary than the current one, which places him as the second best paid rider on the grid, only surpassed by Marc Márquez. He wants to be happy, something that has long ceased to be at Yamaha. That is why he has groped alternatives such as returning to Suzuki, where there is no space for next year, and finally signed with Aprilia, where he will be reunited as a box mate with Aleix Espargaró, with whom he already spent two years at Suzuki before signing in 2017 for Yamaha, a brand with which the relationship has come to an end earlier than expected.
The next move expected from Yamaha is to bring Franco Morbidelli to the factory team and to bring two new riders to Petronas. There are several candidates from Moto2, such as Vierge, Dixon or Roberts and, coming from SBK, the Turkish Toprak Razgatlioglu.
