Oliveira is contracted unti✅l the end of 2024 on a factory deal, however, interest from Honda has been building in recent days.

Along with Maverick Vinales, Ol🧸iveira has become Honda’s main target as they look to replace Marc Marquez.

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But Oliveira’s team owner at RNF, Razla﷽n Razali, was very vocal about the state of play regarding Oliveira and his contract: "He has a contract with Aprilia, a solid one,” said Razali when speaking to MotoGP.com. “So he will still be with us in 2024. 

“There's no such thing as a clause that says that if he has a factory offer, he can leave Aprilia or RNF. Thereꦕ's no such thing. As far as we know, he's sꦜtaying with us next year."

Oliveira ꦫwas subseq🎃uently asked about those comments after Practice 2, and in particular about the no release clause, to which he replied: “That’s not true.”

In terms of the on-track action, Oliveira secured his spot in Q2 after finishing𓆏 P2 with the seventh best time.

“The soft [rear] was good,” began Oliveira. ꧋“There were a lot of yellow flags so I was getting a little bit impatient ꩵto get my lap. 

“But finally I could do a clean la🅰p. I didn’t know if it was enough because 30.4s was really fast and I dꦺid a 31.2 and was a bit far.

“But🔜 happy to make it through. Still some work to do for tomorrow mꦗorning pace wise.”

M꧑andalika appears to be a good circuit for Aprilia as Aleix Espargaro led a factory 102 ahead of Vinales.

Both riders, along with Marco Bezzecchi, brok💯e the official lap record in the process and Oliveira said the layout is favourable to the RS-GP23.

“I knew yesterday that we shouldn’t be worried about the layout ✨because the layout suits many of the aspect of our bike.”