{"id":85657,"date":"2025-08-21T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85657\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:10:10","slug":"i-feel-like-yamaha-doesnt-want-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85657\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel like Yamaha doesn&#8217;t want me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/jack-miller\/841464\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jack Miller<\/a> has openly admitted that he&#8217;s tired of waiting for Yamaha to confirm it will renew his contract so he can stay at Pramac next year \u2013 and says he has other options beyond MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha&#8217;s management has a huge problem following the last grand prix in Austria last weekend, as the manufacturer\u2019s four bikes finished in the last four spots in Sunday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this sporting slump, Yamaha must also pay close attention to the rider market, as it has four riders in completely different situations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/fabio-quartararo\/841449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fabio Quartararo<\/a>, the key player in the project, is under contract until the end of 2026, as is fellow factory rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/alex-rins\/841460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Rins<\/a>. Pramac\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/miguel-oliveira\/841463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miguel Oliveira<\/a>\u2019s deal is contingent on his performance, meaning in essence that he has no guaranteed contract extension for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>His team-mate Miller, whose contract expires at the end of the year, has been linked both to leaving Pramac and to staying with the satellite team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/motogp\/news\/what-yamahas-commitment-to-rins-means-for-oliveira-and-miller-in-motogp\/10750969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Despite Yamaha\u2019s denials in Austria<\/a>, he has also been rumoured to be replacing Rins in the factory team. It\u2019s a roller coaster of options that the Australian doesn&#8217;t fully understand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know as much about what Yamaha plans to do or what their strategy is as you do,&#8221; Miller said on Thursday at Balaton Park.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755803410_264_jack-miller-pramac-racing.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Miller, Pramac Racing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Jack Miller, Pramac Racing<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography \/ LAT Images \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Through his representative, Aki Ajo, Miller asked Yamaha to give him a solution regarding his future after the Austrian GP last Sunday, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have options outside of Yamaha, and I&#8217;m going to move there. It will be outside of this paddock, clearly; there are no bikes available here right now,&#8221; noted Miller, who has an offer from BMW to compete in the World Superbike championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a deadline that I won&#8217;t say. I&#8217;ve had enough patience with Yamaha. If you want me, you want me; if you don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t,&#8221; added the Queenslander, clearly trying to put pressure on Yamaha, which, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/motogp\/news\/moreira-set-to-join-honda-ahead-of-motogp-debut-in-2026\/10751865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after losing the signature of Diogo Moreira to Honda<\/a>, now definitely has a place to confirm at Pramac alongside Toprak Razgatlioglu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like Yamaha doesn&#8217;t want me. Especially because of the number of names that are appearing on the list of candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha\u2019s main focus is on making a new bike to make Quartararo happy \u2013 a V4 machine that has yet to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to contribute to developing the V4 engine and work with them, because I think I have a lot of useful information that can help them with this project,&#8221; said Miller. &#8220;But if they don&#8217;t see it that way, I&#8217;ll move on and try something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Miller has openly admitted that he&#8217;s tired of waiting for Yamaha to confirm it will renew his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,25353,31147,64136,5745,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-85657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-balaton-park","11":"tag-hungarian-gp","12":"tag-miller-frustrated-over-motogp-future-uncertainty-i-feel-like-yamaha-doesnt-want-me","13":"tag-motogp","14":"tag-motor","15":"tag-motor-sports","16":"tag-motosport","17":"tag-motosports","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85657","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=85657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}