Long-time Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis will leave his role at the end of the season, he revealed in a conversation with Motorsport.com.
Jarvis is 66 years old and has been at the helm of Yamaha's racing division for 26 years. As Yamaha team boss, the Briton played a very important role in the resurrection of the company in the mid-2000s. Together with Davide Brivio, he was able to convince Valentino Rossi to join the project in 2004 when the Italian was already a three-time champion with Honda.
'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.
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