Alex Rins has revealed he's been told he's out of the Yamaha MotoGP team for 2027 - and has shed some light on his outlook on the decision and his future.

Motorsport.com reported earlier this month that Trackhouse Aprilia rider Ai Ogura has been selected to partner Jorge Martin in the factory Yamaha team in 2027.

Yamaha isn't really in position to announce either - seemingly due to ongoing behind-the-scenes conversations with MotoGP and its new owner Liberty Media over the next financial agreement with participating manufacturers - but Rins's blunt answers in his media session ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at Jerez have corroborated the reporting.

He said he had rung up Yamaha team manager Massimo Meregalli shortly before the Ogura news leaked out, and was indeed informed the line-up had been set.

"I just called Maio, Massimo Meregalli, for a normal call. I mean, I have a really good relationship with him. And when I called him, I asked him straight away 'do you have any update?'. And he was like - he didn't say anything. And I said 'Maio'. He said 'I can't say anything, but I'll just say, because I have a good relationship with you, but don't say anything [publicly] - we signed the second rider'. That's it. I tried to ask who, but he didn't say, as normal."

Rins has been a disappointment since joining Yamaha as Fabio Quartararo's team-mate in 2024 - but Yamaha itself has also been brutally uncompetitive.

It is currently a clear backmarker as it puts an all-new V4 engine - after years and years with an inline-four configuration - through its paces, and Rins believes he has not been given enough time to show what he can do with the new bike.

"From inside, from a rider's point of view, that I think is the same as maybe your point of view - if you know a little bit about motorbikes, it's difficult to understand," he said of the timing of the decision. 

"Because in a really new project, how can you have the future decided in just three races? With the bike not performing at 100%.

"I gave it everything. Since day one. Since when we tried the bike in Barcelona, in that private test, I gave it everything. It's curious, for sure, it's surprising for me, that in three races they decided everything."

The leg injury that wrecked his 2023 has lingered in the background since, with many in the MotoGP paddock convinced it has fundamentally limited Rins as a rider - though he himself has long insisted it is no longer having a competitive impact.

He reiterated this again here, saying he was "fully recovered" already "in the middle of '24" and that "the leg is answering at 100%". He also said: "I'm the same Alex as won with the Suzuki and with the Honda."

Though Rins is only 30, his options look complicated for 2027 - at best clouded, at worst non-existent.

He said he has not been told anything about whether Yamaha could place him at the satellite Pramac squad, but admitted "honestly I don't think so".

Of exploring a move to World Superbike - where seats anyway look more limited than might seem at first glance - he said: "I mean... I feel that I need to stay here. I have a lot of potential still, in this championship."

And he admitted that he believed the raw state of Yamaha's bike right now was hindering his chance of proving himself to potential employers.

"Right now I don't know [what my options are[. I don't know. The only option that I have is go full throttle on track. As you can imagine, sorry, because it's the same - with a not-really performing bike, you cannot be on the top. So... you need to ride in your own and you need to give your best, and let's see. We are going to work hard."