Consider essentially the most synonymous racer/producer duo you possibly can. Schumacher and Ferrari are proper on the high, with Rossi and Yamaha, am I proper? Rossi is Yamaha’s most profitable MotoGP rider and have become a model ambassador for the OEM after he retired from GP racing, however his ties to the model have weakened of late.
The VR46 clothes line, owned by Rossi, retains Yamaha’s MotoGP riders heat all year long, or not less than it did, till now. The OEM has lower ties with Rossi’s model for 2025 and introduced a brand new take care of Macron, an Italian model, which can manufacture the group’s clothes going ahead.
When questioned in regards to the change in clothes producer, Yamaha group supervisor, Maio Meregalli, stated, “It’s a consequence, however not due to the clothes… As a result of the negotiations with the brand new provider began a lot earlier.”
I do not totally perceive the reasoning from what Meregalli stated, however possibly considered one of you may make sense of it and go away the reply within the feedback. For me, if the VR46 deal is up and working and going properly, then why change it? However this is not the one approach that Yamaha and VR46 are parting methods.
Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that the Moto2 group, which was “run by a division of Yamaha that was not the one which was answerable for MotoGP and was then given to VR46,”, in response to Meregalli, can be entrusted to Pramac. This transfer is smart, given the truth that Pramac can be working Yamaha bikes within the 2025 season as an alternative of Ducati.
So, whereas Rossi stays a Yamaha model ambassador, his hyperlinks, or quite his model’s hyperlinks, to the producer develop additional aside. In no different approach is the separation extra evident than the truth that the VR46 group has turn into Ducati’s primary satellite tv for pc group and can obtain one factory-spec Ducati, which Fabio di Giannantonio will experience in 2025.
The query is, when so most of the VR46 academy riders are related to Ducati, Pecco Bagnaia included, does it make sense for Yamaha to distance itself from Rossi?
