Even though sponsors have changed, basically Paolo Campinoti, owner of the Pramac team, has run this MotoGP satellite team with Ducati since 2005. It is possible that the 20th year in 2024 will be the last year that this team will be a satellite team of the Borgo Panigale manufacturer. who has the best MotoGP motorbike at the moment. Pramac Racing has repeatedly received requests from other motorcycle manufacturers looking for competitive satellite teams to entrust their motorcycles to. In the last ten years, for example, Paolo Campinoti has been contacted by Suzuki, KTM and Aprilia a lot. But Campinoti always remained steadfast. His racing team is an extension of the winning Lenovo Ducati Corse team, which ultimately won the 2022 and 2023 World Riders Championship with Pecco Bagnaia.
However, towards the end of the 2024 season, many people think that Pramac is indeed ‘a bit different’ by wanting and considering moving from the best motorbike with a class A concession to a class D concession motorbike. . . What is the real reason Pramac Racing is considering moving to Yamaha?
Both Pramac Racing and Yamaha are maintaining a low profile for now, and Campinoti also does not want to make any statements. It seems that Pramac still wants to honor the contract because in general they have a legal option to stay with Ducati until the end of July 2024.
Since Campinoti had to deal with the loss of Jorge Martin and failed to attract Marc Márquez to Pramac, the successful businessman has increasingly enjoyed the Yamaha hypothesis. Japan rolled out the red carpet for Campinoti and will make them the only reference satellite team, not one of three satellite teams. When is the decision? “There will be definite clarity only in the summer break, after the German GP,” said an internal Pramac Racing source.
