The SRT Yamaha team keeps getting bad news when preparing your project for the 2022 MotoGP season. Immersed in the position of renewing its entire driver line-up after Valentino Rossi’s decision to retire and Franco Morbidelli’s ‘promotion’ to the official Yamaha team, the Malaysian structure must find a new main sponsor. Petronas has decided to withdraw its support from the SRT Yamaha team and leave MotoGP, a situation that in turn forces the Sepang Racing Team to close its structures in Moto2 and Moto3 to try to balance the budget and keep the project alive in the premier class.
SRT landed in MotoGP in the 2019 season with a line-up made up of Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo. The Frenchman ended up ‘exchanging’ his position with Valentino Rossi, so the Italian ended up in the Malaysian structure. Always with the support of Petronas, andThe project has not stopped growing. However, in a matter of weeks everything has gone wrong for the Malaysian team. Valentino Rossi retires, Franco Morbidelli will meet again with Fabio Quartararo in the official Yamaha team and Petronas has decided to exit MotoGP, so the team has been left without a main sponsor.
Among all the open fronts that SRT Yamaha has for next season, Darryn Binder is presented as an option to ride the first M1 ‘Spec B’ of the team, as long as it assumes going directly from Moto3 to MotoGP. It would be the last ‘service’ of the SRT project in lower categories, since the structure will have to close its Moto3 and Moto2 project to be able to balance expenses and maintain the project in MotoGP while waiting for a significant sponsor. SRT debuted in Moto3 in 2015 and brought his project to Moto2 in the 2017 season.