Pramac will reportedly leave Ducati and go to Yamaha, according to S🤡ky Italia, a decision🅺 with multiple knock-on effects.

Sky Italia report that 💃Pramac will formalꦚise their decision soon.

Other major decisions within the MotoGP paddock mu✱st wait…

Who will get 2025 Ducati factory bikes?

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

Ducati will be l❀eft with two other satellite teams -ꦺ VR46 and Gresini.

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

VR46 would upgrade from year-old bikesꦺ to latest-spec bikes, a significant improvement in their s🌊tatus within Ducati.

Will Ducati lose a competitive advantage?

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

Ducati insist that the playing field is even and they have been able to offer teams the best terms, allowing them to grow their presence to eight😼 bikes.

This coincided with Pecco Bagnaia’s first🦋 championship in 2022, ending a 15-y👍ear winless run for Ducati.

The manufact💝urer - and the individual riders - benefit from the multitude of identical, or very simil🌸ar, bikes through the use of data.

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

With two bikes less, if Pramac qui𝐆t, Ducati will find themselves with a total of six. No longer double the qua🦋ntity of riders and bikes as KTM and Aprilia.

Aprilia’s ascension 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 thrജeat 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 creep in that they could 🦩be caught more often.

Can Yamaha fast track development?

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

Since last year, they have fielded j🐬us🃏t two riders.

But undoubtedly the lackꦓ 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 development.

It has been striking to see a goliath manufacturer in MotoGP with only a pair of bikes compared to the ei꧅ght Ducatis.

If Pramac jo🌠in Yamaha then it will represent a major next step in the rebuild of the Japanese brand.

A bonus two bikes - an🦩d sets of data - will allow them to fast track the progress of the M1. Factoring in the concessions rule, Yamaha will be optimistic.

It might not mꦛean an overnight return to the front, but it will mean that everything is in place for Yamaha to slowly restore themselve🍒s 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 obviously, it will impact🅷 Franco Morbidelli, the current Pramac rider whose contract will expire this year.

Only last season 𓃲he was dumped by Yamaha who 𓄧likely will not bring him back.

In theory, Morbidelli could become a victim if Pramac move to Yamaha, with nꦅo obvious landing spot.

Exce🍃pt the vacant VR46 seat will surely be calling his name.

Reunited with mentor Valentino Rossi, who is seekin🤪g a replacement for Marco Bezzecchi, the stars could align perfectly for Morbidelli.

It🌼 may also mean he can re💛main on a factory-spec Ducati, as he is this year.

The man♚ in the middle of Pramac’s big decision could end up becoming the biggest beneficiary.

What happens to Fermin Aldeguer?

When Ducati announced they had signed the tee▨nager from Moto2 to make his MotoGP 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 first words upon signing his contract was that he expected to move into the Pramac team in 2025ꦏ.

But i💧f they quit as they are now tipped to do, Ducati must find space for Aldeguer elsewhere.

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

In turn, that decision also imp🔥acts whether he will ride a GP25ꦜ or a GP24.

Ducati ✨must also consider what to do with Aldeguer in 2026.

🌱Aldeguer’s manager has bullishly told&nbs🍃p; that they have two years of guaranteed contract, followed by the option of two more.

“The second year he will ta🌳ke the GP26 no ma🦋tter what,” Aldeguer’s manager insisted.

Without Pramac, and with Aldeguer’s contract to honꦗour, Ducati’s options tighten.