LORIS CAPIROSSI JOINS DUCATI PRAMAC RACING TEAM Another Italian rider will enter in Pramac Racing Team’s history next season. Loris Capirossi with which the Ducati satellite Team has just concluded an agreement that will see him wear the white-green of the Italian Team. A great experienced rider to celebrate, next year, the ten years of Pramac’s involve in the two wheels World. Loris will have the chance to ride again the Ducati 800cc that was able to develop in the 2007, when the rider ended the World Championship in the seventh position. The season that will end in two weeks with Valencia’s Grand Prix, was not the best season for the Pramac Racing Team and thanks to the arrival of the 125cc and 250cc World Champion the hope is that next year the Italian Team will conquer good results. Loris is considered one of the icon of the MotoGP World Championship in which he has regularly taken part from more than twenty years: he has the record of Grand Prix, until today he have raced 313 Gran Prix. In his long career, the Itali an rider has won 29 Grand Prix and had conquer 99 podiums and three World Championship, two in the 125 cc class, in which he holds the record of youngest rider to conquer a World Championship, and one in the 250 cc category. Paolo Campinoti – Pramac Racing Team Principal “We are very pleased to have closed an agreement with one of the most experienced riders and one of the most titled of the current MotoGP World Championship. The deal between us was very simple because Pramac Racing Team, and him, always aim to try to fight for important results. We do not need to talk about Loris, we all know him, we know his value and we are sure that thanks to his quality, we’ll have fun next year on all the tracks, taking also some satisfaction. With Loris we will celebrate our tenth anniversary in the World Championship and this is a real honor for us. We know that Loris had conquer in his career 99 podiums and we hope to achieve together the triple digits. I would like to thank our partners who have welcomed our choice and we hope that Loris’s and Pramac Racing Team fans will follow us with passion during next season. ” Loris Capirossi “This return on a Ducati bike make me feel like a child. I do not feel my 37 years! I have a great desire to start this new adventure, I’m enormously pleased about this new agreement that was reached with the Pramac Racing Team, this will allow me to ride and be part of an Italian Team. I would like to thank the Team Principal of the Pramac Racing Team, Paolo Campinoti, for giving me this great opportunity and for the confidence placed in me. I’ll find again the Ducati, with whom I had very good results over the past years and that I was able to develop in the 2007, this is an unique sensation for me. I thank Suzuki for the years we spent together and thanks also to the excellent relationship maintained with them, they had give me the possibility to race with my new Team since Valencia’s test of next month.” LORIS CAPIROSSI HISTORY 2010 – MotoGP – not finished yet 2009 – MotoGP – 9th 2008 – MotoGP – 10th 2007 – MotoGP – 7th 2006 – MotoGP – 3rd 2005 – MotoGP – 6th 2004 – MotoGP – 9th 2003 – MotoGP – 4th 2002 – MotoGP – 8th 2001 – 500cc – 3rd 2000 – 500cc – 7th 1999 – 250cc – 3rd 1998 – 250cc – 1st 1997 – 250cc – 6th 1996 – 500cc – 10th 1995 – 500cc – 6th 1994 – 250cc – 3rd 1993 – 250cc – 2nd 1992 – 250cc – 12th 1991 – 125cc – 1st 1990 – 125cc – 1st PALMARES 29 victories 99 podium 41 pole positions 2 times World 125 cc Champion 1 times World 250 cc Champion 313 Grand Prix