MotoGP | Zarco and Martin unveil the Ducati of Pramac Racing

Never change a winning team. If we stop at the drivers line-up, it would seem that Pramac Racing has respected the rule, but in reality Paolo Campinoti’s team starts the 2022 season without one of the key figures that have allowed it to become the reference among the satellite structures in MotoGP.

On the command bridge of the wall there is no longer Francesco Guidotti, who has surrendered to the KTM court, and his place has been taken by Claudio Calabresi, who was the team manager of the team that defended the colors of the Tuscan team in MotoE in the last season.

“This is my first time as Team Manager and I will do my best to take Pramac Racing even higher. I am sure that Johann and Jorge will give us a big hand, who have already done an exceptional job in 2021. This year the challenge it’s fascinating: to confirm ourselves and to grow further. We have great ambitions and we will do everything to give our fans a lot of satisfaction “, said Calabresi.

As mentioned, inside the box, however, there is always the couple who last year allowed Pramac Racing to sign a good hat-trick: Johann Zarco was the best among the independent drivers, Jorge Martin the “Rookie of the Year” and all this made it possible to finish the season as the best independent team, with the icing on the cake of the victory won by the Spaniard in Austria.

“This year’s goal is to reconfirm ourselves on very important levels after the excellent results of last season. 2021 has shown that hard work, combined with the great professionalism of the people who make up the team, brings great results. we created with Johann and Jorge is special and the rankings speak for themselves: Best Team Independent, Best Rider Independent and Rookie of the Year, the best season of Pramac Racing. I can’t wait to start, we expect great things “, he said Campinoti.

Just like in 2021, the bond with the Ducati parent company remains very strong, which will make a factory version Desmosedici GP available to both riders, therefore identical to that of the two official riders, Pecco Bagnaia and Jack Miller. After all, Zarco and Martin also have a contract directly with the Borgo Panigale manufacturer and it will certainly be an important season for both to define their future.

Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing

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It is no mystery that for next year the Madrid-born aspires to make the leap towards the official Red team and if he reconfirms himself up to what was shown in 2021 he would also have a good chance of joining Bagnaia. We must not forget, in fact, that Ducati fought a lot to snatch him from KTM, which had focused on him since Moto2, so it is difficult to hypothesize that one of the revelations of the premier class panorama can easily be missed.

“Last season was the most intense of my life, a succession of very strong emotions, moments of great difficulty but also of extreme happiness. Together with Pramac Racing we started to build something special. Last year we laid the foundations, this year we are ready for great things, “said” Martinator “.

For the Frenchman, who will blow out 32 candles in July, it will instead be the year of “all or nothing”. The first objective is not difficult to imagine: hitting that victory that he has only come close to in five years in MotoGP (last year he finished second four times). But for him it will also be fundamental to return to the levels that at the beginning of 2021 also allowed him to command the world championship standings, because behind him there are many young people who are trampling to have a factory bike in 2022, above all Enea Bastianini.

Johann Zarco, Pramac Racing

Photo by: Pramac Racing

“I am really happy to be racing another season with Pramac Racing. Continuity is important, to improve ourselves and to carry out ambitious projects. We have built an excellent relationship with the team and I am very satisfied with what we have done last season. Not I am looking forward to leaving for testing and getting on the bike. It will be a great season “, added Zarco.

The launch video showed the two color bearers of the team arriving at the Pramac headquarters at the wheel of two Lamborghinis (partners for several seasons now) and then they discovered their Desmosedici GPs in a very suggestive setting, which maintain the traditional colors of the recent seasons: white, red and blue. The latter, however, has more space than in the past, especially on the boys’ suits. But even looking at the bikes, one cannot fail to notice that blue also made its appearance on the wings, which were black last year, but also on the tank area and on the fairings, stealing space for red, which was much more predominant in 2021.

The Pramac Racing livery

Photo by: Pramac Racing