From a press release:

Pramac Racing presents its 2003 MotoGP sports programme



Victory in the 2005 MotoGP championship: This is Pramac Honda Team’s ambitious aim. The announcement was made during the imposing presentation that took place, before all the assembled workers, inside the Pramac Group works in Casole d’Elsa.

“It would be fantastic to get there even earlier. Our commitment is to prepare special tyres for each Grand Prix”, said Hiroshi Yamada, director of the Bridgestone motorcycle division that has chosen Pramac Racing and Honda for the development of its new generation tyres.

“The challenge we are facing is to become the number one team in the Grant Prix”, reaffirmed Tetsuo Iida, former chief of Honda Europe for nine years and now president of Pramac Racing. He was chosen for the helm of the racing squad by Paolo Campinoti, the managing director of the Pramac Group who is already gunning for the title this year with the other team set up in agreement with Sito Pons and Max Biaggi. “Max is the best rider, Pons has the best organisation, and we’re putting our bets on the world championship”, declared Campinoti.

“We’ll be working together to make the best of Italian imagination and Japanese meticulousness”, stressed Gianluca Montiron, sports director of the team that will be entrusting the Bridgestone-shod Honda RC211V to Japanese rider Makoto Tamada, and that will have another Japanese, Shinichi Itoh, as its full-time test rider.

“In the world championship this year we’re going to have to face up to new teams and new competitors. It’s going to be a very tough and very hard-fought championship. Knowing that we’ll be working with an efficient organisation like Pramac, that we’ve known for two years, is indeed a comforting thought”, said Kuoji Nakajima, general manager of HRC, “partly because we know that Bridgestone will do all in its power to give us its support and technical development. And we’ll do the same.”