Pramac Racing has revealed it will depart from Ducati at the end of the 2024 MotoGP season in favour of Yamaha on a multi-year deal.
The news will see Pramac end its 19-year-long affiliation with the Italian manufacturer ending in favour of pastures anew.
Pramac will become Yamaha’s secondary “factory” team and will be offered up-to-date spec M1 bikes. The announcement states that riders will be “directly contacted by Yamaha” and current MotoGP engineers will work “together” with the Pramac team-staff.
Pramac’s line-up for 2025 is yet to be confirmed, but current rider and championship leader Jorge Martin will be jumping ship to factory Aprilia.
Lin Jarvis, the Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing, stated: “These are busy times for Yamaha, both on track and behind the scenes. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (YMC) and Yamaha Motor Racing (YMR) have made it no secret that they are putting all their effort into bike development.
“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.
“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 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team.
“The targets are to accelerate bike development, which remains YMC and YMR’s key priority in our quest to return to winning ways, as well as having four competitive riders in the MotoGP championship in two top-class teams.“
“I would like to extend my personal appreciation 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 highly successful for many years to come.”
