Fabio Quartararo desires Pramac to prioritise signing one-time MotoGP race winner Fabio Di Giannantonio for 2025 when it turns into a Yamaha satellite tv for pc workforce.
Throughout final weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix, Yamaha introduced it had signed a long-term cope with Pramac for it to grow to be its factory-backed satellite tv for pc associate from 2025.
Since that announcement, the checklist of riders linked to the 2 Pramac Yamahas has grown.
However on Thursday forward of the German Grand Prix, 2021 world champion Quartararo made it clear who he thinks Pramac needs to be aiming for.
“This man on my proper [Di Giannantonio],” he stated within the pre-event press convention on the Sachsenring. “I feel Fabio could be the one that may make a very good job for Yamaha.
“I’m pushing him on the way in which to Yamaha as a result of, in fact, the final 10 months he has been doing a very nice job. We want a rider like him to actually enhance on our challenge.
“A rookie could be additionally a good suggestion. I feel [Sergio] Garcia, [Alonso] Lopez are names which can be actually quick in Moto2 and so they can earn their place right into a workforce like Pramac that in the long run it is not going to a be a satellite tv for pc workforce – it’s an extension of the manufacturing unit.”
Fabio Di Giannantonio, VR46 Racing Group
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
Di Giannantonio solely had his 2024 trip confirmed after final season completed, with VR46 Ducati providing the 2023 Qatar GP winner a lifeline following Gresini’s determination to exchange him with Marc Marquez.
On the 2023-spec Ducati at VR46, Di Giannantonio has scored double the factors of his three-time GP-winning team-mate Marco Bezzecchi and is second-best GP23 rider within the standings behind Marquez.
The Italian confirmed he’s in talks with Yamaha and VR46, which is ready to get one manufacturing unit Ducati in 2025 – and can “outline” his “plan A” this weekend.
“I’m grateful of this case and in addition to Fabio truthfully, as a result of to have these phrases from a colleague – a rival but in addition a buddy – is all the time so good,” he stated.
“It’s not a secret that we’re speaking with Yamaha, but in addition my workforce, and the plan C that I can’t say. I used to be speaking with Fabio final week about how the challenge is.
“As I stated, I’m in an excellent state of affairs the place I can determine my future and this weekend I’ll outline, roughly, the way in which for my plan A.”