Past and present Pramac riders, Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin, feel the team’s switch to Yamaha machinery will be a loss to Ducati in MotoGP next season.
Zarco spent three seasons at Pramac, culminating in a long-awaited debut MotoGP victory at Phillip Island last year, before switching to LCR Honda this season.
The Frenchman is happy to see that 2025 grid more ‘balanced’ and thinks the battle for third to tenth places will change.
But he doesn’t expect anyone to challenge Ducati’s 2025 factory line-up of current champion Francesco Bagnaia and new signing Marc Marquez.
“It will be good for the Yamaha project. They need more bikes to develop and get more information,” Zarco said.
“It’s good to get more Japanese bikes in the championship, because now the European bikes, above all the Ducatis, get too much advantage.
“So there will be a little bit better balance and I hope that the Japanese [factories] will reduce the gap with Ducati.
“I think Marc and Pecco for next year, in the top team, will be almost impossible to reach and they will fly all the year.
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