Yamaha’s eight-year rider development partnership with VR46, including the ‘Master Camp’ Moto2 team, will end after Sunday’s Barcelona season finale.
    
The collaboration began in 2016 with a five-day training program for young riders at Valentino Rossi’s ranch in T🗹avullia.

Thos𓂃e efforts expanded in 2017 with the VR46 Junior Team project giving Master Camp recrui🉐ts and Yamaha bLU cRU riders a chance to gain racing experience across Europe.

The team, whic🎃h initially competed in the CEV Moto3 clas🅘s, then moved up to Moto2 in 2019.

The ‘Yamaha VR46 Master Camp team’ entered𓂃 the Moto2 World Championship in 2022 with rookies Manuel Gonzalez and Keminth Kubo.

Gonzalez continued in 2023, joined b🍷y Japanese rider Kotha Nozane. The Spaniard delivered several top-five finishes including second at the Qatar GP, the team‘s best performance to date.

This year the team has run Ayumu Sasaki an𝔍d Jeremy Alcoba, the latter achieving two fourth-place results.

But with VR46 forging closer MotoGP ties with Ducati while Yamaha’s new satellite MotoGP partnership with Pramac ‘includes🦹 a future Moto2 project', the🥂 writing was on the wall for the VR46-Master Camp project.

“We are immensely proud of everything the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team has achieved during🎃 these ಞeight years together,” said Tetsu Ono, General Manager of Yamaha’s Motorsports Strategy Division

“This partnership has been dedicated to nurturing young talent, and together we💫 have celebrated growth, resilience, and memorable milestones on the 🔜track.

“As we close this chapter, Yamaha is grateful for the incredible journey shared with VR46 and wishes ever💖yone involved a brilliant future.”

VR46’s A✨lessio Salucci added: “We can only be proud of this great project that we have been carrying forward for eight years together with Yamaha. From the very beginning🌼, we knew we had to offer something unique to help young riders grow by giving them the best opportunities.

“When we started in 2016 with the Master Camp camps in T🃏avullia, no one could have imagined that the project would൲ evolve to the point of having our own team in the Moto2 World Championship.

“We would like to thank Yamaha, all the sponsors, the riders, and the staff who have been with us over these years, as well as the entire community of fans who have supported us ꧃throughout this great Yamaha VR46 Master Camp adventure.”