In 2025, Prima Pramac Racing will become a satellite team for Yamaha in MotoGP, ending a two-decade-long partnership with Ducati. This move means Yamaha will once again have a satellite team, a situation they haven’t been in since 2022. However, the approach will be different this time, with Yamaha treating Pramac as a secondary factory team.
Johann Zarco, who raced for Pramac until last year and also rode for Tech3 when it was partnered with Yamaha, believes that the new Pramac-Yamaha collaboration will be beneficial for the manufacturer:
– It will be good for the Yamaha project. They need more bikes to develop and get more information. It’s good to get more Japanese bikes in the championship, because now the European bikes, above all the Ducatis, get too much advantage. So there will be a little bit better balance and I hope that the Japanese [factories] will reduce the gap with Ducati.
Quoted by Crash.net, the current LCR Honda rider also mentioned that he expects Honda to feel the need to step up due to Yamaha’s new partnership: ‘I think Marc [Márquez] and Pecco [Bagnaia] for next year, in the top team, will be almost impossible to reach and they will fly all the year. But at least from the third position to the tenth position, there will be some changes, and that will be good. And I think also, Yamaha doing improvements and getting more bikes on the grid will push Honda to also make the changes and to push themselves to find solutions’.