The long-anticipated confirmation arrived this Friday: Pramac will leave Ducati and become Yamaha’s second factory team in MotoGP in 2025. The agreement covers the last two years of the current regulations as well as the first five years of the new rules to be introduced in 2027.
Paolo Campinoti, owner of Pramac, assured GPOne.com that there were no financial motives behind this change, as the financial impact will not be positive: ‘What I would like to make immediately clear is that it wasn’t about the money. […]. In fact, in the short term, I will lose, because I won’t have the variable that I have from the sponsors. Obviously, I am not thinking that we will achieve the same results we were accustomed to’.
Regarding the contract, the Italian clarified: ‘It is a seven-year contract. These two and five with the new bike’.
On the other hand, Campinoti emphasized his conviction that Yamaha will return to good results, placing trust in the work the manufacturer is developing:
– Yamaha convinced me with this project. They are a glorious manufacturer who has won a lot, and they won the last title just three years ago with [Fabio] Quartararo. They are working hard, even in Italy with [Luca] Marmorini and Max Bartolini. It won’t be immediate, but they will return to winning because they always have.