Pramac will reportedly leave Ducati and go to Yamaha, according to Sky Italia, a decision with multipleꦦ knock-on effects.

Sky Italia rep♒ort that Pramac will formalise their decis൩ion soon.

Other major decisions withi💖n▨ the MotoGP paddock must wait…

Who will get 2025 Ducati factory bikes?

If Pramac confirm their exit and decide to ride Yamahas next year, two factory-spec Ducatis💜 are up for grabs.

Ducati will be left with two other 𒈔satellite teams - VR46 and Gresini.

It is🙈 Valentino Rossi’s team who are expected to benefit, if Pramac quit, by inherited the factory machinery.

VR46 would upgrade from year-old b▨ikes to latest-spec bikes, a significant improvement in their status wit♔hin Ducati.

Will Ducati lose a competitive advantage?

The ‘Ducati Cup’ - as modeꦚrn MotoGP has been jokingly labelled - is largely because its dominant manufacturer has more bikes on the grid than anybody else.

Ducati insist that the playing field is even and ꦇthey have been able to offer teams the best terms, allow🌞ing them to grow their presence to eight bikes.

This coincided with Pecco Bagnaia’s first championship in 2022, ending a 15-year wღinless run for Duca🅘ti.

The manu✤factur𝓰er - and the individual riders - benefit from the multitude of identical, or very similar, bikes through the use of data.

This season for 💙example, Marc Marquez’s adaptation to the year-old Ducati from a Honda is aiꦜded by his ability to check his progress against seven other riders (three other riders on a GP23).

With two bikes less, if Pr♊amac quit, 💖Ducati will find themselves with a total of six. No longer double the quantity of riders and bikes as KTM and Aprilia.

A❀prilia’s ascension𒊎 to grand prix and sprint victories this season - plus their exciting rider duo of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi next year - makes them an obvious threat to fight at the front more frequently.

And if Ducati are stripped of a key advantage through the 🧸sheer quantity of data that they can collect, fear might creepꦬ in that they could be caught more often.

Can Yamaha fast track development?

Yamaha’s problems since Fabio Quartararo won the 2021 MotoGP title are not limited to their lack o൲f bikes on the grid.

Since last year, t🧸hey have fielded just two riders.

But undoubtedly﷽ the lack of data that Quartararo and his teammate (last year Franco Morbidelli, now Alex Rins) have been able to draw conclusions from has not helped their dev𒅌elopment.

It has been striking to see a goliath manufactu🔴rer in MotoGP with only a pair of bikes compared to the eight Ducatis.

If P🥃ramac join Yamaha then it will represent a major next step in the rebuild of the Japanese brand.

A bonus two bikes - and sets of data -𓃲 will allow them to fast tr🐼ack the progress of the M1. Factoring in the concessions rule, Yamaha will be optimistic.

It might not mean an overnight return to the front, but it will m♉ean that everything is in place for 𝓰Yamaha to slowly restore themselves to past glories.

Good or bad news for out-of-work riders?

Pramac switching from Ducati to Yamaha will have an obvious knock-on effect with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 MotoGP rider line-up.

Most obvioꦡusly, it will imꦏpact Franco Morbidelli, the current Pramac rider whose contract will expire this year.

Only last season he was dumped 🤡by Yamaha who likely will not bring him back.

In theory, Morbidelli could become a victim if Pramac m𝓀ove to Yamaha, with no obvious landing spot.

Except the vacanꦏt VR46 seat will surely be calling his name.

Reunited with mentor Valentino Rossi, who is seeking a replacement for Marco Bezzecchi, the stars could align perfectly 🌜f༒or Morbidelli.

It may also mean he cꦯan remain on a factory-spec Ducati, as h🌄e is this year.

The man in the ♏middle of Pramac’s big d🐓ecision could end up becoming the biggest beneficiary.

What happens to Fermin Aldeguer?

When Ducati announced they had signed the teenager from Moto2 to make his MotoG🗹P debut in 2025, they strangely did not confirm which team he would be allocated to.

That’s because Pramac’s future was uncertain.

Aldeguer’s f🎐irst words upon signing his contract was that he expected to move into the🅷 Pramac team in 2025.

But if they qꦰuit as they are now tipped to do, Ducati must fi༺nd space for Aldeguer elsewhere.

Their𓆉 official line-up is decided (Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez) so Aldeguer must be moved into the VR46 or Gresini garage.

In turn, that decision also impacts whether he will ride a G🐲P25 or a GP24.

Ducati must also con൩sider what to do with Aldeguer in 2026𝄹.

Aldeguer’s manager has bullishly told  that they have two yea🅠rs of gu🍒aranteed contract, followed by the option of two more.

“The second year he will t𒉰ake the GP26 no matter what,” Aldeguer’s manager insisted.

Without Pramac, and with Aldeguer’s contract to hono꧅ur, Ducati’s options tighten.