Pramac Racing, goodbye Ducati: official move to Yamaha

A new adventure, after a full two decades.

Pramac Racing is abandoning Ducati and linking up with Yamaha, starting with the 2025 MotoGP season. A decision that had been in the air for some time, but which è became official Friday at the start of the Dutch Grand Prix weekend in Assen. The agreement, as the Japanese manufacturer explained, will have a multi-year duration. Paolo Campinoti later specified that it is for seven seasons.

"Prima Pramac Racing è excited to join Yamaha as a second Factory Team starting with the 2025 MotoGP season", reads the team’s press release. "The decision to part ways with Ducati è was not taken lightly – continues the note – and we thank them for the long and fruitful path we have taken together".

As pointed out in the previous announcement, the team will be" "factory" and will therefore have the best equipment from the Iwata company starting with the official bikes. This is confirmed by this further statement: "Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. è pleased to announce the multi-year agreement with Prima Pramac Racing, which will see two more Yamaha YZR-M1 Factory bikes lined up on the MotoGP grid starting in 2025".

This is a real revolution for Pramac, as the Gino Borsoi team’s partnership with Ducati has è spanned 20 years, from 2005 to this season, after the first two with Honda. Never before 2021 had it picked up victories in MotoGP: the spell was unlocked with Jorge Martin at the Styria Grand Prix, the first stage of a journey that has led the team to even graduate to winning the team classification.