MotoGP: More From Monday At Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya
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On Monday, MotoGP teams prepared for the first post-season test, with squads rolling out new machines and riders acquainting themselves with new crew members ahead of Tuesday’s activities at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Fresh off of winning the 2024 MotoGP World Championship with Ducati and Jorge Martin, the Pramac racing squad rolled its new Yamaha YZR-M1 prototypes into their garage. Pramac switched to Yamaha for 2025, giving the Japanese company two additional machines on the grid. This is expected to help the company and the two-bike factory team gather data and feedback as they try to improve their dismal level of performance–the factory team did not score a single podium in 2024. After Sunday’s race, former World Champion Fabio Quartararo praised the company’s revitalized development efforts. “If we test an engine and it is better, we have it at the next race,” Quartararo said.
Clad in unpainted black fairings, the Pramac machines featured new aerodynamics, particularly down the side of the upper fairing, in a configuration similar to that seen on the factory-team KTM RC16 racebikes in 2024.
Luigi “Gigi” Dall’Igna, General Manager of Ducati Corse and the architect of the all-conquering Desmosedici machines that have dominated MotoGP for the last three seasons, appeared for a brief news conference in the media center at Barcelona. Dall’Igna says he is confident that Ducati will remain competitive in 2025 with six bikes on the grid, down from eight in 2024, but “the real problem is that Martin is leaving to another company and same for Enea (Bastianini). This is the difference between 2024 and 2025."
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