Pramac Yamaha rider Jack Miller has hinted at worry over how long the team's 2026 MotoGP line-up is taking to be firmed up, with the wait to name Toprak Razgatlioglu's team-mate seemingly extended again.
Miller and Oliveira have been fighting to stay on at the Yamaha satellite team following the decision to bring Razgatlioglu over from the World Superbike paddock, and Miller has been thought to be in the stronger position - not hindered by his rapid performance in the Suzuka 8 Hours for the factory Yamaha team during MotoGP's summer break.
However, the possibility of Pramac pairing Razgatlioglu with another rookie - namely Diogo Moreira from Moto2 - has also been floated, and while the expectation was that a decision would come during the summer break, both Oliveira and Miller insist that - to their knowledge - that isn't the case.
"We didn't talk," Oliveira said when asked by The Race about any summer break future talks with Yamaha.
"Hopefully we'll know soon. But when we know something, you will also know. But not in advance!
"There seems to be another two races for them to come up with a decision. My main target is just to continue doing the best I can for me, number one, and then try to bring some good results in these couple of races. And put myself in the best possible position to be competitive."
This information was corroborated by Miller, whose tone made it clear he'd have liked the matter to be resolved already.
He said he was "trying to make conversations, trying to make contact and understand what my situation is at the moment" during his time representing Yamaha at Suzuka.
"Still nothing on the table. Just waiting, trying to play the waiting game. I want to be here, I want to be with Yamaha. Just waiting."
When prodded on a decision timing, he said: "First it was before summer break, then it was after summer break. Getting delayed. Why are we delaying it, I don't know, but hopefully something comes out soon.
"Obviously, other opportunities are starting to close up."
One major seat across the MotoGP and World Superbike landscape that was taken up in the former's summer break was the Razgatlioglu-vacated BMW WSBK seat, which went to Miller's sometime Pramac team-mate Danilo Petrucci.
But it is not clear that this is what Miller is referring to. There have been suggestions that Pramac isn't his only route of staying in MotoGP, with LCR Honda potentially in need of a steady veteran presence in the seat occupied by injured rookie Somkiat Chantra.
"I'm trying to be as patient as I possibly can," said Miller. "Because I love this project, I love working with Yamaha, I enjoy the whole environment, I love my crew chief. I'm very, very happy where I am and I feel like I can go further, improve, do more.
"But like I said, we'll just wait and see. I think they're very happy with me. And I made the call in plenty of time to ask if there's anything more I can do, different, whatever, I'm an open book, trying to do what I can."
It was a bit of a change from how Miller had talked about the seat and the wait for a decision before - and somewhat in contrast to Oliveira's position.
"My actual focus is not so much... as you might think, stay or not stay," Oliveira.
"But I actually focus quite a lot on my weakest points with this bike, which is the braking phase. And I've been progressing quite well, I would have to say, but then Sachsenring and Brno I kind of hit a wall there, things were not going the way, and in Brno we did try to go closer to the set-up Jack and Fabio [Quartararo] have, and I did struggle quite a lot, especially on this area where I lose the time, on braking. And I want to get that fixed.
"And I think results and performance will come as a consequence of that. If you're riding well and you're feeling good on the bike, then things come easier. if you're just focussing on getting a result or whatever, then things might get tricky."
