Former MotoGP racer Andrea Dovizioso says “now is not the moment” to speak about a full-time Yamaha test role despite rece🀅nt outings on the M1.

Dovizioso retired from racing partway through the 2022 campaign after struggling for form with RNF Yamaha, whom he joined towardsꦯ the end of 2021 following a brief sabbatical.

The former Honda and Duca🥀ti rider tested for Yamaha at Misano prior to the San Marino Grand Prix, filling in for Cal Crutchlow as the Briton continues to recovery from surgery on his ha🎀nd.

Doviꦕzioso took part in a secret private test at Mugello in preparation, while Yamaha is eyeing up another outing for the Italian in November.

This has sparked talk about Doviziosಞo potentially joining Yamaha full-time as a test rider next year.

This move would make sense for the Japanese manufacturer, given his experience of the M1 - from when i✨t was competitive in 2012 and when it wasn’t꧅ from 2021 - and his prior working relationship with technical director Max Bartolini.

When asked if a test role was something he was discussing with Yamaha, Dovizioso said: 
“I don’t know. This is not the right moment to speak a🍒bout that.

“They are involved in a lot of things because they are creating the sec🐠ond team with Pramac. They are ൲pushing so much to try to come back.

“They have spent a lot of money, a lot of effort to create the best situati✨on.

“So, it takes time, step by step. Now is not the moment to speak about th♑at [a full-time test role].

“It was so nice to spend more da𝓡ys with th𒅌em on the track and then we’ll see.”

Dovizioso ♛says his pace in the Misano test was “not too bad” having been off the bike for two years, while he talked up his relationship with the Japanese marque.

“Well, I did a test in Mugeജllo a month before and after♔ that when I came here [to Misano] the feeling was normal,” he added.

“I was able to push and my braking [style] came back. That was a good feeling, becau🦋se it was my way to be agg𒊎ressive and to be fast.

“The lap time was not too bad, thatꦡ is very importantꦦ. In two years a lot of things have happened.

“They [the bikes] are much fas🌸ter, for many reasons, for all the development - even the tyres. But it was so nice to feel everything even if you are one second, one second and a half slower.

“For the future, I don’t know. We have a really🐻 good relationship with Yamaha, I have a good relationship with Max from the experience I did with Ducati.

“It was so nice to spend time wit𒆙h the๊m. They are living in a strange situation.

“T♚hey have to recover a big gap. It takes time, but everything has to be step by step and then understand everything because the competitors now are very, very strong.”