With Tech3 joining KTM꧋, o🎶nly two of the six MotoGP manufacturers will be without a satellite team in 2019.

The factories in questio🐬n, Suzuki and Aprilia, have opposing views on the importance of su🙈ch a project.

For Suzuki, linked with Marc VDS before the Belgian team's premier-class withdraw, it remains a clear amဣbition.

"This is an ongoing disღcussion for us inside the company," said Suzuki team manager Davi💦de Brivio.

"As a race team, we would really like to have a satellite team, in order to get much more information and to develop even further the bike and e𝄹verythiℱng.

"But for the company, it’s a big effo♔rt because we don’t have so much resources and not so many people like maybe our competitors.

"Anyway, we are always working. We keep discussing and I hope t✃hat we are able to do someth♈ing for 2020.

"I haven't checked, but now it looks like that might be difficult, because I think all the satellite teams have a contract expiring after 2𝓰020.

"[A satellite team] is something in our mind, in our discussions and is a target for Suzuki, but still the de൩cision is to come."

However Aprilia, which supported t🧜he idea of a satellite team in the past, is changing tactics.

"For Aprilia this is not a primary target," said team💦 boss Romano Albesiano.

"We've decided to invest in the development, in the test team and in doing wil𝔍d-card participation at the right level.

"This we believe - being focused on the two factory riders plus one high-level test rider - is the best way to develop𒈔 for our structure, which is not a 'giant'."

The new approach has ▨seen Aprilia sign Bradley Smith to headline its revamped test and wild-card ඣteam, while MotoGP winner Andrea Iannone joins Aleix Espargaro at the race team...