Motorcycling-Pramac to make switch from Ducati to Yamaha from 2025
28/06/2024 16:44
June 28 (Reuters) - Pramac Racing will end their 20-year
partnership with Italian bike manufacturer Ducati and become a
second Yamaha factory team from the 2025 season in a multi-year
partnership, the teams announced on Friday.
Pramac Racing have been using Ducati's Desmosedici bikes
since the 2004 season but will now receive factory spec YZR-M1
bikes from Yamaha, with the riders set to be directly contracted
by the Japanese manufacturer.
Tuscany-based Pramac will continue to be an independent team
but have not confirmed their rider lineup for 2025, with MotoGP
championship leader Jorge Martin making the switch to Aprilia
next year having been snubbed by the factory Ducati team.
"We now enter the next phase, one that we have been looking
forward to for a long time: the arrival of a second Yamaha
team," Lin Jarvis, the managing director of Yamaha Motor Racing,
said in a statement.
"The new partnership with Prima Pramac Racing will take a
different form than we have used in the past.
"Rather than a satellite team, with this new agreement
Yamaha have put their trust in Pramac Racing, and we will be
providing them with factory bikes of the same specification used
by the Yamaha MotoGP team."
Pramac had been receiving the same bikes as the factory
Ducati teams since the 2020 season. When Pramac entered MotoGP
in 2002, they originally started with Yamaha.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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