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Post-Solidarity Barcelona GP rider and team changes: Yamaha and Honda

by Antonio Mendes
November 13, 2024
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Post-Solidarity Barcelona GP rider and team changes: Yamaha and Honda

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The next round of the MotoGP World Championship in Barcelona, at the Solidarity GP, is the stage for some paddock farewells and other changes between riders – and not only – and after yesterday talking about Ducati, Aprilia, and KTM, today it’s time for Yamaha and Honda, two Japanese manufacturers working to return to their best.

Honda was for many years a standout in MotoGP through Marc Márquez who, after leaving for Gresini Racing/Ducati at the end of last year, opened a new era for the manufacturer.

Joan Mir was already in the team and continues to search for better results and has renewed with the manufacturer, staying with the factory team next year, and Luca Marini, who made his debut with the RC213V this year, is to be retained. Thus, regarding 2025, Honda maintains the same riders but with an expected change in its image, as Repsol ends its decades-long sponsorship with the team, giving way to Castrol.

It’s worth noting that Aleix Espargaró, currently an Aprilia Racing rider, is preparing to say goodbye to the category as a full-time rider and will be a fundamental and important piece in Honda’s test team, joining Stefan Bradl in motorcycle development, promising to bring a different and fresh perspective.

LCR Honda, in turn, has news. Takaaki Nakagami, the team’s most experienced rider, will have his last round in Barcelona as a full-time rider, and will thus join Aleix Espargaró in the test team, with Somkiat Chantra (Moto2) taking his place and joining Johann Zarco, who is the manufacturer’s best-ranked rider in the World Championship at 17th, after leaving Pramac Racing last year.

And it’s precisely in the Yamaha universe that some of the biggest news exists.

If the factory team remains untouchable, with Fabio Quartararo being the team’s leading figure, Álex Rins will remain by his side, and the pair even renewed their contracts with the Japanese structure this year.

The biggest news regarding Yamaha relates to the fact that it will return to having a satellite team, and precisely a team that has been in the spotlight in recent years in MotoGP, Pramac Racing.

Paolo Campinoti’s team will undergo significant changes and even lose money ‘in the long term’ with this partnership, as he himself stated, and it’s curious that with the Italian structure having a strong chance of becoming world champion, with Jorge Martín standing out, there is this decision-making and separation from Ducati, largely due precisely to the whole process that involved Martín not going to the Italian factory team.

Yamaha didn’t want to miss the opportunity and convinced Pramac’s management to join them and thus renew their rider lineup with two very experienced riders who know what it’s like to win in MotoGP: Miguel Oliveira and Jack Miller.

The Portuguese rider leaves Trackhouse Racing and Aprilia after two years marked by instability and misfortunes more than any other rider on the grid: many injuries and usually caused through no fault of his own, and a difficult adaptation from the Aprilia RS-GP 22 to the 24, which complicated the entire adaptation process.

However, Oliveira has more victories in his resume than a good portion of the grid’s riders and is well known for his ability to develop the bike, cerebral and calculating instinct, and will thus have his third experience with a different manufacturer on the grid, after KTM and Aprilia, joining Yamaha, an “old love.”

Miller, in turn, leaves KTM, after precisely taking Oliveira’s place at the Austrian manufacturer but never fully showed his real worth with the RC16, and returns to Pramac after three years with the Italian team, then under Ducati’s aegis. With four victories in his pocket and experience with Honda, Ducati, and KTM, Yamaha will be the fourth different manufacturer he will experience, bringing essential knowledge to help put Yamaha back on the path to success.

It remains to be seen how this partnership will unfold, but Pramac is a super solid and competent structure, and could be the perfect ally for Yamaha to return to its best level, plus it has an experienced rider duo.

Tags: Aleix EspargaróÁlex RinsFabio QuartararoJack MillerJohann ZarcoMiguel OliveiraMotoGPSomkiat Chantra
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