Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli is honest about his future amid links to BMW
Andrea L♏o༺catelli addresses whether he will stay with Yamaha in 2026

Andrea Locatelli has become a key part of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Championship rider market.
The Yamaha ri൩der is out of contract at the end of this season, and has reportedly been identified by rivals.
BMW have included him♉ on a short-𝕴list of potential replacements﷽ for Toprak Razgatlioglu, should they lose the WorldSBK champion who is searching f💯or a MotoGP ride.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Locatelli said: “When I ar𓃲rived at Yamaha, I think my life changed🏅 a bit because I immediately won WorldSSP in 2020.
“We built my career with Yamaha, so I’d like to conti๊nue with them and maybe one day, b🔯e someone important for Yamaha.
“I feel like we have this pos꧙sibility with Yamaha but, at the same t💙ime, I need to look at my career.
“We need to look at everything and understand which is the best🉐 option for⛄ me and my future.
“At the 💃moment, I only want to think about riding the bike, giving my all, and winning with Yamaha.”
Andrea Locatelli 'never lost focus' for WorldSBK win

Pata Maxus Y♛amaha rider Locatelli won Race 2 at Assen, in the absence of injured teammate Jonathan Rea.
It came in Locat🅰elli’s 154th WorldSBK race, the longest any rider has ever gone before a maiden win.
“Finally, we got the first v💛ictory at Assen in Race 2,” said Locatelli.
“I t📖hink it’s a good moment for me, my career, the whole team because we 🧔were believing for many, many years.
“With Yamaha🍸, we never lost the focus. We were working really hard every weekend and finall🌄y at Assen, we got my first victory.
“I think we deserved it, and it was a good moment, espeꦆcially at this po🎀int in the season.
“I want to continue to trust and push hard because I need more. I fe✅el like I’m a bit angry, so I’ll keep pushinဣg like this and try to do more.
“This was quite strange because I saw he was slowing down after the finish line. I was thinking that he thinks we’ve already taken the chequered flag💞, because in the past, we’ve see♓n some races where this happened.
“I didn’t lose my focus. I was behind him and pushing full throttle 🦹🍃until the end, because Bautista pushed me all race.”
💧The fifth roundꦡ of 2025, the Czech WorldSBK, is this weekend.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade c⛄overing everything from American sports, to football, to 🌠F1.