{"id":649417,"date":"2026-05-04T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:14:10","slug":"people-forget-about-you-without-a-top-motogp-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649417\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople forget about you\u201d without a top MotoGP machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rins was \u201csurprised\u201d that Yamaha decided his MotoGP future after just three rounds with its new V4 machine.<\/p>\n<p>A race winner for Suzuki and then LCR Honda, where Rins suffered serious leg injuries a few rounds after his COTA victory, the Spaniard returned to factory status with Yamaha for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Like Honda, Yamaha was very much in a rebuilding stage, having fallen well behind the European manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha<\/a> took the most radical action, developing a new V4-powered machine to replace its Inline bike for this season. However, it is yet to pay off.<\/p>\n<p>Rins, who managed a best of seventh on the Inline M1, scored points in two of the opening three rounds on the new V4, matching the bike\u2019s best GP result of 14th.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>But upon arriving at the Spanish Grand Prix, Rins confirmed that he had lost his Yamaha seat, with Ai Ogura set to join Jorge Martin in an all-new 2027 line-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My motivation hasn\u2019t changed,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889478\/alex-rins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rins<\/a> told GPOne.com. &#8220;Even though it\u2019s not an easy time, ever since I found out I wouldn\u2019t be continuing with Yamaha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough &#8211; when I signed the contract, I was still with LCR Honda, and I felt good. They came to me and gave me this opportunity: I saw there was potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Inline4, we struggled to push the bike, and I had trouble braking. Then when we switched to the V4, the feeling was good, so I was surprised because within three races they had already decided my future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy commitment to them was total. That\u2019s life, but I\u2019ll continue to give it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Rins, who gave Suzuki a dream farewell by winning the 2022 Valencia finale, also pointed to how quickly perceptions change in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> if you&#8217;re not on a competitive machine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, if you didn\u2019t have a Ducati, you didn\u2019t stand a chance, and now Aprilia is doing very well. Ducati seems to be facing a few more difficulties but is still competitive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems, however, that if you don\u2019t have that bike, people forget about you. We can\u2019t work magic; we have the bike we have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been three difficult years for me, but I\u2019m still the same Alex from the past, the one who won races and claimed podiums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Rins was \u201csurprised\u201d that Yamaha decided his MotoGP future after just three rounds with its new V4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[40457,64,63,10671,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-649417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-rins","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-monster-energy-yamaha-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}