Well lets just say that expectations should be considerably lower on this bike than previous/existing rides. Lets hope he can leave KTM with a few decent rides.

Agree, I think its just for the sponsorship money he may bring with him.  Its certainly not for the skill levels.

I'm hoping he proves all of ya wrong

To be honest I don't really understand what exactly Yamaha are trying to achieve, the i4 has not been competitive for awhile now.

Well the sprint race has come and gone....Jack 16th out of 21 finishes, 19sec behind the winner after 13 laps.

Seems like their v4 will make a appearance next season so Jack may well be handy for the technical input having ridden nearly every other v4. Yamaha are going with many bikes with a eye on rapid data acquisition being the goal. 

Jack crashed out on the first lap bringing several others down.

Stewards didn't penalise him for the crash, guess it was one of those things.

Well keeping his record up he's crashed again in practice for Jap GP....now needs to go thru qualifying 1 to hopefully get into the top two to progress to qually 2 to get a decent grid position........nah ain't happening. 

https://www.crash.net/motogp/results/1057143/1/2024-japanese-motogp-motegi-friday-practice-results

Not all joy either after a good start did the very predictable race backwards....  at least he was upright for a change.

Finished in top ten.....just lol.