by VALERIO BARRETTA
Pramac-Ducati, it’s goodbye
“A question of feeling“, sang Mina and Riccardo Cocciante. That feeling between Pramac and Ducati no longer exists, and in fact these two protagonists of MotoGP will no longer “sing” together in 2025. Paolo Campinoti’s team has signed a seven-year contract with the Yamahaaccepting to go into a dimension that is less sportingly appealing (at least at the moment) but which from a design point of view may have its own reason.
Is exactly “project” the key word of this story. That project that Campinoti believes was betrayed by Ducati with the promotion of Marc Marquez and not Jorge Martin to the official team: a move that the Tuscan manager himself compared to the purchase of Cristiano Ronaldo, and therefore of a soloist who puts personal interests before those of the team.
Campinoti’s words
For Campinoti, saying goodbye to Ducati was also a question of pride and coherence: “When we arrived, no one wanted to be in Ducati, we did a very important, intense job. I honestly have a personal bond and a great friendship with Gigi Dall’Igna, this kept me in doubt until the end, because I can never separate the professional aspect from the sentimental aspect”this is his comment on Sky Sport MotoGP. “But then objectively, despite the affection, the conditions were no longer there because there was no longer a need for a junior team, so I honestly no longer felt like I was an integral or fundamental part of this project“.
“It’s a bittersweet feeling, on the one hand I’m very happy because we’re going to one of the most important manufacturers in the MotoGP, a manufacturer that has won 18 world championships, I must say that it’s certainly a very positive thing. On the other hand, I am very sad because a professional and also love story with Ducati is ending: on the one hand I am happy because the adventure we are having is certainly beautiful, on the other I am very sorry because you leave so many memories, many things that you can’t erase with a press release“.
