Rumors abound about Yamaha’s new satellite team for 2025. The Japanese manufacturer has already shown its intentions to put another team on the MotoGP grid, with the partnership of Prima Pramac Racing, which currently uses Ducati bikes in the MotoGP world championship.
Speaking in an interview with GPOne, Max Bartolini spoke about this issue and why the Japanese manufacturers are lagging behind the European ones.
– I can’t go into details, but it seemed to me to enter a temple and, in some respects, to surprise me more. There is a cultural difference, but there are a lot of fans, in some ways more than I was used to. Almost everyone has the bike, takes it apart, and it’s not a question of brand. A lot of people tell me about Ducati road bikes and, from that point of view, I was pleasantly impressed.
He added: ‘The mentality is quite different, but racing brings everyone together. We Italians do 10 things and think about them once, they do one and think about it 10 times. They work very well, but they have their own rhythm and they’re used to thinking about lots of things, and that’s what’s put them a bit behind.