After winning the riders’ championship at Pramac in 2025, George Martin joins Aprian and faces two challenges for the first time in his MotoGP career.
The Spaniard announced in June that he had joined the Noale, Italy team on a multi-year deal. Aprilia He wanted to replace the retired Alex Espargaro with his best friend. Martin. The 26-year-old’s move further closed the factory rider’s ranks for the first time in the premier class.
Martin jumped at the chance to sign with Aprilia After learning that Ducati They had to move six times MotoGP Champion Marc Marquez joins Francesco Bagnaia from Gresini. The second bike of the Bologna Bullets was supposed to be Martin’s until Márquez rejected the switch. Pramak.
Pramac director Fonsi Neo admits Jorge Martin Aprilia’s move is ‘the best thing ever’.
Ducati’s U-Zur will see Martin compete on an Aprilia bike for the first time in 2025, to replace Enea Bastianini. It will also see Martin leave the Borgo Pangale team for 2024 as two-time defending champions Bagnayan. MotoGP World Riders Title.
Pramac rider performance director Fonsi Nieto has no ill feelings towards Martin for opting to leave the Tuscany team for Aprilia. Instead, the Spaniard feels going to join the factory MotoGP team was ‘the best thing’ for Martin after winning the championship at Satellite Ducati.
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Nieto hailed Martin and Pramac’s bid to win the 2024 championship, becoming the first rider in the MotoGP era to win the championship with an independent team. So, Pramac deserves the chance to become a factory rider when he switches to Yamaha bikes.
“To beat a monster like Ducati like this is amazing,” said Nieto. Europa Press. “Achieving it as a satellite team is a bigger task. At Ducati, they are direct factory, a lot of people are working. But we were better.
“From the winter training session, believing we were going to win the world championship, we worked very closely together and formed a very common and very cohesive team. George deserved it, and so did the team.
“I think it was the right thing for George to leave the team in this way. He almost beat it last year. We worked really hard, he worked hard for it, and it was an added motivation, ‘If George leaves, we can’t lose this world championship. This world championship must stay.”
George Martin left Pramac at the absolute peak they could get together
Pramac will sign an unprecedented seven-year deal with Yamaha in June 2024 to become the de-facto second factory team for the Japanese brand when they return with four bikes on the field in 2025. In favor of VR46.
The 2025 season will be an era of new beginnings as Pramac not only becomes a satellite Ducati team, but Martin begins his new life as a factory Aprilia rider. Parting with the Knights winning the championship was a strong parting gift for both sides.
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In the alternate world, Martin is left in Pramak and in 2011 In 2025 he could stay at the satellite Ducati and fight for the championship with Bagnaia and Marquez. But the Spaniard would not make it as a factory MotoGP rider until at least the 2027 season.
Instead, Martin and Pramack parted ways at the absolute pinnacle of what they could have achieved as a partnership. Despite becoming the second Yamaha team to join the Pramac rider line-up after Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira, Yamaha does not have a title-winning bike.
