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Shinya Nakano and Olivier Jacque will race YZR-M1 Yamaha four-strokes in the final races of the 2002 MotoGP series.

That’s the word out of Japan, where Nakano spent August 9 testing the M1 at Yamaha’s Fukuroi test course, near Iwata.

Yamaha’s plans call for Nakano and Jacque to ride the YZR-M1 in the Malaysian, Australian and Valencia Grands Prix.