The Frenchman rider seems to move to a familiar brand from the past for 2024 and beyond…
In contrast to previous years, the silly season has been a little quiet these days. However, there are a couple of rumors hanging around, one of them is about Dylan Ferrandis leaving Star Racing Yamaha for Monster Energy Kawasaki.
Ferrandis is under his last deal term with Star Racing Yamaha and things did not go as would like to. Back to Supercross, he started on a solid way being 4-5-6 in the first three Main Events before things went downhill. In Houston, Texas, Ferrandis landed on the back of Ken Roczen`s Suzuki, a race incident that caused a red flag situation. Ferrandis hit his head and then entered under the concussion protocol being sidelined for several rounds. He returned at the eighth round in Daytona but crashed during Friday’s press day session. He did not race the following day and would go to France to undergo testing as his supercross season would end prematurely.
He eventual return for the AMA Pro Motocross series with a 3rd overall at the season opener at Fox Raceway and now sits 2nd in the standings by a huge deficit of 49 points behind Jett Lawrence after being out of the podium in the last two rounds.
Despite there is still a couple of months of racing to go with seven Pro Motocross races in the schedule plus the SuperMotocross Championship, it seems Ferrandis’s future will be on green.
Ferrandis is well-known in Kawasaki from his GP`s days. Before moving to the USA, Ferrandis rode for Kawasaki his entire World Championship MX2 career. In fact, the last win for the brand in the MX2 class was earned by Ferrandis in Loket, in 2016.
If the rumors are true, Ferrandis will replace Adam Cianciarulo in order to be the new teammate of Jason Anderson. The future of Adam Cianciarulo is unknown. Although, if Ferrandis actually moves to Kawasaki, the Star Racing Yamaha team will face a dilemma in case Eli Tomac decided to retire at the end of the year.
