With the departure of Jorge Martín and the impossibility of signing Marc Márquez, who made it very clear in Mugello that the Prima Pramac was not an option for him, the change from the Italian team from Ducati to Yamaha seemed to be made starting next season . However, now it is not so certain that the team owned by Paolo Campinoti, which features Gino Borsoi as team manager, becomes the new satellite team of the tuning fork brand And this is because the option of changing the factory from Italy to Japan has been reopened. It stars the Pertamina Enduro VR46.
The same team that forcefully denied such a possibility in the past, in the mouths of Uccio Salucci and Pablo Nieto, the right and left hands of The doctor at the head of his MotoGP team, Now he does not rule out the possibility that it is he and not Pramac that is the protagonist of this movement. This is what sources from both teams have assured this newspaper, the same ones who trust that this weekend, in Assen, the outcome of this plot can be known.
An important fact to keep in mind is the fact that it is not Yamaha that chooses its destiny, but rather it is in the hands of Ducati, which has to agree with its teams to decide how to act. The Borgo Panigale-based company currently has eight of its bikes on the grid and the loss of one of its satellite teams would mean that it would be left with six, which should not be a problem. And even more so with the super team in the official garage, that of Lenovo Ducati, which has been guaranteed for the next two seasons, with a pair formed by Marc Márquez and Francesco Bagnaia that makes up a real dream team.
In recent years, Prima Pramac has had the privilege of being the Ducati satellite team that has the official motorcycles, those of the current year, while the others race with the Desmosedici of the previous year. They can exercise that advantage again before the end of this month, but without Martinator Neither Márquez nor Márquez in their box have been left with a rather discouraging panorama, because there are no free drivers to choose from a priori to wins, let alone the title. Going to Yamaha could be seen as an act of spite, but it also makes sense given what he has experienced and what the Japanese brand can offer him, ready to get out of the hole it has been in for some time. However, The VR46 has stood in their way, mainly because Ducati puts more pressure on them than they would like and because the reunion between Rossi and Yamaha, the brand of which he is an ambassador, would be very welcome.
This weekend there will continue to be movements in the offices and, based on what Ducati decides with its satellites, it will be time to think about pilots for the motorcycles that are free. Aldeguer has had a long-standing contract to move up to MotoGP with Ducati, but he still doesn’t know which team he’ll join, and he’s not the only one who has doubts about his future. And in the meantime, the leader of SBK, Toprak Razgatioglu flirting with Yamaha to reach the queen class. He also has to wait. He will continue…
