The collaboration between Yamaha and VR46 in the junior sector is coming to an end – From 2025, Pramac will run the MotoGP satellite team as well as the Moto2 team
From the 2025 season, Yamaha and the Italian Pramac team led by Paolo Campinoti will begin a comprehensive collaboration. On the one hand, Pramac will form the new satellite team in MotoGP. The experienced riders Miguel Oliveira and Jack Miller have been signed.
In the medium term, Pramac is to contribute to the development of the M1, but in the long term it is also to be the team for young talent. This is also evident from the fact that Pramac will take over Yamaha’s Moto2 project in the future, with potential MotoGP candidates set to race there.
In recent years, Yamaha has run a Moto2 team in cooperation with VR46. The cooperation between Yamaha and Valentino Rossi’s team dates back to 2016, when the Master Camp project was born.
Twice a year, five-day training sessions were held at Rossi’s MotoRanch in Tavullia, mainly for up-and-coming Asian drivers. As a result, the program was also expanded in cooperation with Yamaha’s junior project bLU cRU.
Finally, the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp team for the Moto2 class was formed in 2022. In practice, VR46 took care of the racing, with Yamaha paying the bills. The Yamaha logo could also be seen on the Kalex-Triumph.
This eight-year collaboration between Yamaha and VR46 has now come to an end. This in turn means that VR46 will in future be represented exclusively as a private team in MotoGP, while Rossi will compete in car races with BMW.
The new Moto2 junior team will in future form the structure of Pramac. Even as a partner team of Ducati, Pramac saw itself on the one hand as a supporter of technical development and on the other hand as a training ground for young talent for the factory team.
In the future, Pramac will take on this role for Yamaha and also in Moto2. However, they will not start with Kalex chassis like the predecessor team, but with Boscoscuro. So in 2025, there will be four Boscoscuro teams in addition to SpeedUp, MT-Helmets, Marc-VDS and Pramac.
Yamaha’s managing director Lin Jarvis says: “The founding of the Pramac Yamaha Moto2 team reflects Yamaha’s commitment to nurturing young talent and guiding them through the junior classes, as well as our company’s commitment to returning to the top of MotoGP.”
In the 2015 Moto2 season, Pramac will compete with Italian Tony Arbolino and Spaniard Izan Guevara. “Pramac has always been committed to promoting young talent and supporting their growth,” emphasizes Campinoti.
The Italian points to the new MotoGP champion Jorge Martin: “We are helping them to become important protagonists in MotoGP and even world champions. We are proud to strengthen this mission by expanding our presence in Moto2.”
Honda also runs a Moto2 junior team led by Hiroshi Aoyama. KTM has been working with Aki Ajo’s team for years. Only Ducati and Aprilia do not finance a Moto2 team.
