The Super-Silly season of MotoGP continues with one of the most anticipated news: the transition of the Prima Pramac Racing team from Ducati to Yamaha. Il team owner Paolo Campinoti he confessed to having chosen the Japanese manufacturer at Mugello, when he saw the red Ducati garage rejoicing over Enea Bastianini’s overtaking of Jorge Martin as if the Iberian wasn’t a Borgo Panigale rider. A consideration that can be shared up to a certain point, given that although it is the official team, Lenovo Ducati is still another team, and it is legitimate for it to rejoice if one of its riders passes that of another team. What Campinoti will never be able to say is that he saw Gigi Dall’Igna rejoice, who has always shown himself to be impartial and democratic, sharing the data of all the riders and making it available to each team.
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE Dall’Igna seems to emerge weakened from the last month of the market, but in reality he will obtain a series of benefits from the situation that has come to be created. It is true, he has lost three talented riders (Jorge Martin, Marco Bezzecchi and Enea Bastianini), strengthening the rival teams, in order to keep one (Marc Marquez), even of a certain age. And he has also lost the reigning world champion team, which from next year will carry its colors on the Yamaha M1. Dall’Igna, however, has at the same time saved quite a bit in terms of wages and investments (all to be included in the study of the new 2027 motorcycles), causing 8 to 6 bikes to go down on the trackas planned for some time. However, there are still several choices to be made on the riders’ side and beyond. Having settled the official team with the sidereal duo of Bagnaia and Marquez (By the way: will they be able to coexist? Or will it be a re-edition of the bitter fight seen between Lorenzo and Rossi in Yamaha a few years ago. A fight that, however, harmed the riders but not so much the team, which was ultimately victorious anyway), it remains to be seen who will race with the Gresini Racing and VR46 teams, and – above all – which of the two will get the “official” treatment with the most up-to-date bikes, a treatment reserved until now for Prima Pramac Racing.
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DUCATI SCENARIOS Alessio Salucci, team principal of the team Valentino Rossi has already gone out of his way by stating that VR46 should become Ducati’s reference teamthus taking the place of Pramac Racing, with Fabio Di Giannantonio confirmed (but there is also talk of Yamaha sirens for him in the event of Rins’ farewell) and with a seat to be entrusted at this point to one of Fermin Aldegueralready under contract with Borgo Panigale for 2025, and Franco Morbidelli, who doesn’t seem interested in staying in Pramac and returning to riding Yamaha, not to mention that he is already a rider in Rossi’s Academy. There are also those who have rumored that VR46 could also leave Ducati for the possible arrival of BMW and Toprak Razgatlioglu in MotoGP, but it seems like an impossible path to follow, at least for 2025. It remains to be understood, then, who it will be the Ducati rider of the Gresini Racing team who will join Alex Marquez, and for that seat there is still the name of Aldeguer, who would recompose an all-Spanish pair, but would have to ”make do’ with the old bike.
YAMAHA SCENARIO Another tangled situation is that of the Iwata house. Now that he has two teams he needs two more riders, maybe three, because Alex Rins is not sure if he will stay (but his options are reduced to Honda or an unlikely second seat in Aprilia). So who will get on the saddle of future Pramac Racing motorbikes? There are two names that have been mentioned, Superbike. One is that of Toprak Razgatlioglu, but given the breakup with Yamaha, which occurred precisely because they didn’t bring him to MotoGP, it seems like a difficult path to follow. The second is to Andrea Iannonewho seems to have already been ordered for a test with the M1. There could also be names from Moto2 in play, but to understand who the Japanese manufacturer will focus on we will have to wait a few more weeks, maybe months, as well as the evolution of the cadet world championship. Finally, a name that no one has yet mentioned is that of Joan Mir, full of discontent in Honda and who would like a change of scenery: what better place, therefore, than the world champion team, to try to rebuild a winning future? We’ll see. The super-silly season is still far from over.
