MADRID, 28 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Prima Pramac Racing will leave Ducati after two decades together in the MotoGP World Championship and will join Yamaha from 2025, a “multi-year” partnership agreement that will allow the grid to have two more factory-spec YZR-M1s.
Thus, Prima Pramac Racing will become Yamaha’s second factory team from 2025, while remaining an independent team on the MotoGP grid. The cooperation will see Yamaha provide factory YZR-M1 bikes for the team; Riders will be hired directly by Yamaha, and Yamaha-hired MotoGP engineering staff will work alongside Pramac team staff.
Pramac landed in the MotoGP World Championship in 2002 with Honda, but three years later, in 2005, it joined the Borgo Panigale factory through the D’Antin team.
Yamaha Motor Racing Managing Director Lin Jarvis acknowledged that these are “difficult times for Yamaha, both on the track and off.” “Yamaha Motor Co. and Yamaha Motor Racing have made no secret that they are putting all their effort into the development of the bike. Now we enter the next phase, one that we have been waiting for for a long time: the arrival of a second team at Yamaha” , he indicated.
In addition, he reported that the new partnership with Pramac will take “a different form” than the one they used in the past. “Rather than a satellite team, with this new agreement Yamaha has placed its trust in Pramac Racing, and we will provide them with factory bikes of the same specification used by the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP team. The objectives are to accelerate the development of the bike “, which remains the key priority for YMC and YMR in our attempt to return to winning ways, as well as having four competitive riders in the MotoGP championship in two top-class teams,” he noted.
In addition to the MotoGP programme, the collaboration includes a future Moto2 project to provide “a platform to prepare future MotoGP riders”. “It is too early to give details on this programme at this moment, as it will be developed over the coming months,” he said. “I would like to extend my personal recognition and thanks to Paolo Campinoti, CEO of Pramac, and Gino Borsoi, Team Manager of Prima Pramac Racing, for their faith and trust in Yamaha. We have the greatest respect for their team, and we assure them of our full commitment to make this new partnership a great success for many years to come.”
2024-06-28 15:05:29
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