The Pramac team is currently going through something of a fateful few weeks. Team manager Gino Borsoi had actually announced in Mugello that they would continue to ride Ducati bikes in the future. But a lot has changed since then. So much so that even Gigi Dall’Igna openly admits the possibility of a split.
“It is clear that we are in the final phase, because the time to make a decision is running out,” the Ducati mastermind explained to Sky Italia. What he means by this is that by the end of July, Pramac will have a contract option to extend its collaboration with Ducati by two years. Borsoi had announced in Mugello that the team would exercise this option. But that was premature, as Dall’Igna also confirmed: “The outcome is clearly not in our hands, so we just have to wait and see.”
Great dynamism in the driver market: Pramac is left empty-handed
But why is Borsoi’s statement no longer valid? The MotoGP rider market is the reason. It was clear that Pramac would lose its top rider in Jorge Martin. What was unexpected, however, was how difficult the chance of finding a top-class successor had become. The dream of a great solution was over just a few days after Borsoi’s announcement. Marc Marquez did not want to go to Pramac and thus forced his move to the factory team, which drove Martin to Aprilia.
A little later, KTM secured two more of the best options in Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales. Marco Bezzecchi did not want to go to Pramac last year and is said to be highly rated by Aprilia. So who is left? Franco Morbidelli has shown increasing form recently, but can he be a team leader? And if Ducati stays, one place would probably go to Fermin Aldeguer anyway. He is considered highly talented, but he is also a rookie.
Pramac will hardly be able to maintain its current sporting status (Jorge Martin leads the World Championship and won the team classification in 2023) in the future, even if they continue to have the best bike in the field with the current Desmosedici. So it’s no wonder that Pramac owner Paolo Campinoti is currently weighing up his options.

Dall’Igna hopes to stay with Pramac, but Yamaha tempts
It is clear that he has an alternative at the start: Yamaha is desperately looking for a customer team and offers significantly better financial conditions. The problem, of course, is that Yamaha is currently lagging behind. An M1 in the garage would make the search for good riders even more difficult. Franco Morbidelli, one of the current riders, can tell you a thing or two about the problems of the Japanese motorcycle.
Either way, Pramac is in danger of being relegated in the short term. The question is, then, which long-term prospects does Campinoti consider better? Gigi Dall’Igna wants to keep his most important customer team: “We have a common history with Pramac. We have worked together a lot and we are friends. That’s why I hope that Paolo Campinoti will make the decision to stay with us.” The ball is now in Pramac’s court.