Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis has revealed during the Grand Prix of the Americas weekend that he will depart his long-standing role at the end of the 2024 season.
Jarvis has been with Yamaha’s racing division for the last 26 years and was an integral component in delivering success back to the Japanese marque in the mid-2000s.
Alongside current Trackhouse Aprilla boss Davide Brivio, the pair played a vital role in bringing Valentino Rossi to the team when he was dominating the sport at Honda.
That partnership brought four World Championships in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2019, with Jorge Lorenzo also adding MotoGP titles with Yamaha in 2010, 2012 and 2015.
Jarvis’ last success revolves around Fabio Quartararo who lifted his first title in 2021, with the Frenchman committing to Yamaha through a multi-term renewal last week.
“This will be my last season at Yamaha, I will quit at the end of the year,” Jarvis told Motorsport.com at the Circuit of the Americas.
“I will decide later what I’m going to do, what I will dedicate my time to.”
“I started the factory team in 1999. It has been an unusually long period. I’m 66 years old now and I’m starting to get a little tired of travelling.
“I’ve been doing this for 26 years, and it’s quite extraordinary for the same person to lead a project, in a factory, for such a long period.
“The time has come to do something new.
“It’s the ideal time to make this transition. We have to be able to close my chapter and start the new one, in harmony. That is the best solution for both parties.
“We have already identified the candidate who will most likely become my successor, although it has not yet been made official.
“But it will be a man from the Yamaha group, who will take over my position in January next year.”
Motorsport.com believes that the leading candidate to replace Jarvis is Paolo Pavessio, who is the Marketing and Racing Department Director for Yamaha Europe.
