Lin Jarvis, MD of Yamaha Motor Racing, has confirmed to motogp.com what everyone had already suspected – that negotiations are underway to keep Jorge Lorenzo at the factory Yamaha team and the goal is to pair him up with Ben Spies

Lin Jarvis said:
“Our plan is that we would obviously like to continue with Jorge who is having such a wonderful year at the moment. We are working closely with him and his management to try and close the deal. I’m optimistic that in the near future I hope we can achieve that.”

“Our plan is also to bring Ben Spies over from the Tech 3 team. Again that has not been concluded yet. As soon as all the contractual agreements are fixed then we will make our announcement. At this moment that’s the plan for the factory team.”

“It was a sad day (Sunday) because even though we have known about his decision for some weeks when you make the public announcement it becomes a fact.”

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