Augusto Ferna꧒ndez will not ride at next week’s Barcelona MotoGP test, with his widely anticipated move into a testing role yet to be officially confirmed.

It’s expected that Fernande♈z will join Yamaha for 2025 as the Japanese brand’s official MotoGP test rider, but the Spanish rider will not be participating in Tuesday’s post-race tes🧔t at Barcelona.

“It’s not going to be Tuesday,” Fernandez said. “I’ll be here, aroundꦯ, but not riding.”

Before the first test of the 2025 season comes the final race of the 2024 season, with Fernandez coming to Barcelona off the back of one of his best weekends of the year, finishing 10th in Sဣepa꧙ng two weeks ago.

“Honestly, coming from Sepang, I was happy with the race, we did a very good step and I was feeling good𒁏, so looking forward to this race,” Fernandez said.

“This is a track 𝐆that I like, even this year [at the Catalan Grand Prix] it was not the worst weekend.

“So looking forward to start here, different conditions to when we were here [for the Catalan Grand Prix]. So, for sure will change: tyres different, evﷺerything different, so everything new to manage.”

Although the conditions will be different for this weeke༒nd’s🌠 Solidarity Grand Prix will be different to those which were present at May’s Catalan Grand Prix, Fernandez expects the results to be mostly the same.

“It will be different the way we have to manage the weekend and everything, about the tyres becaus🐼e we have a lot to try and test,” Fernandez said.

“But in the end, this track at race time — we know in Spain it will be hot, maybe not as hot as May, but good conditions; the tyre drops because of the layout of Barcelona is what it🧸 is.

“So, same bikesꦜ, same riders will be as competitive [this weekend as in May].

“Me, hopefully a little bi♉t more! But it w🥃ill be more or less the same.”