MotoGP | In Assen the possible Petronas announcement with the Pedrosa Morbidelli couple

MotoGP Assen 2018 – The MotoGP world championship is ready to land in Assen and in Holland there could be the announcement of the new Yamaha team sponsored by Petronas, which would see the Spaniard Dani Pedrosa and our Franco Morbidelli on the M1.

The Malaysian oil giant is ready to announce its entry into MotoGP and at the head of the entire operation will be Razlan Razali, CEO of the SIC (Sepang International Circuit) and Team Principal of the Moto2 and Moto3 team of the same name.

The bikes should be, unlike the past/present, two M1 Factory bikes and not SATs like those that Johann Zarco and Hafizh Syahrin have at their disposal this year in Team Tech 3.

The riders will not be announced immediately, but given that all the MotoGP boxes are now ticked, the aforementioned Pedrosa and Morbidelli are the most serious candidates. The first was "sponsored" by Valentino Rossi himself, who in Barcelona, ​​when asked specifically, replied that the #26 would be very useful for the house of the Tre Diapason.

It is yet to be understood which team will support the entire project, even if Team Angel Nieto is in pole position, currently lining up Alvaro Bautista and Karel Abraham on the Ducatis, even if it remains to be understood what will happen to the Team Marc VDS, who has been without Team Principal Michael Bartholemy for a few GPs now, at odds with owner Marc Van der Straten.