Alice Team

Pramac Racing is a motorcycle racing

Motorcycle racing

Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.-Motorcycle racing:...

team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship. The team was created in 2000

2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 52nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.-Season summary:Kenny Roberts, Jr. fulfilled the promise of his 2nd place in 1999 by winning the championship for 2000 with 2 races to spare...

by Italian company Pramac. In 2005

2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 57th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.-Season summary:The 2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season began on April 10 at Jerez and closing on November 6 at Valencia...

Pramac Racing joined forces with d’Antin MotoGP to form Pramac d'Antin. Luis d'Antin

Luis d'Antin

Luis d'Antin is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He had his best year in 1996 when he finished sixth in the 250cc world championship....

resigned from the team midway though the 2008 season

2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 60th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.-MotoGP:The MotoGP class opened with the historic Qatar Grand Prix, the first night race held in the World Championship history...

d’Antin MotoGP

The d'Antin MotoGP Team was set up in 1999 by Spanish

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

former motorcycle racer

Motorcycle racing

Luis d'Antin

Luis d'Antin is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He had his best year in 1996 when he finished sixth in the 250cc world championship....

. Beginning in the team raced in the 250 cc Spanish and World Championships with Yamaha and two Spanish

Spain

riders Fonsi Nieto

Fonsi Nieto

Alfonso Gonzalez Nieto is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. As the nephew of successful Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Ángel Nieto, it was no surprise when he started competing in the sport himself. After success in the 250cc class he moved to World Superbikes, while he also has made one...

and David Garcia

David Garcia

David Garcia was a broadcast journalist for ABC News. Garcia had the distinction of becoming one of the first Hispanic news correspondents for a major American television network in the 1970s....

.

Also beginning in 1999, the team ran in the 500 cc class with Japanese

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

rider Norifumi Abe

Norifumi Abe

Norifumi "Norick" Abe 阿部典史 , or ノリック・アベ , was a Japanese motorcycle road racer who was previously a 500 cc/MotoGP rider.-Biography:...

. Abe took a win in at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka

Suzuka Circuit

, Suzuka Circuit for short, is a motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Mobilityland Corporation, the subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..-Introduction:...

. José Luís Cardoso

José Luís Cardoso

Jose Luis Cardoso is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the 2006 season, he rode for the Pramac d'Antin Ducati squad, his second time with this team.-Early career:...

joined the team in as second rider alongside Abe. A podium finish was the team's best result.

500 cc became MotoGP in . The D'Antin team continued with the same riders and the same motorcycle the 500 cc 2-stroke Yamaha YZR500

Yamaha YZR500

The YZR500 was the Yamaha Motor Corporation’s entry for 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle racing between the years of 1973 and 2002.- Successes :...

. The 500 cc 2-stroke motorcycle was not able to compete against the more powerful 990 cc 4-strokes and top 10 finishes were the team's best results.

The team got the new Yamaha YZR-M1

Yamaha YZR-M1

The Yamaha YZR-M1 is an motorcycle specifically developed by Yamaha Motor Company to race in the current MotoGP series. It succeeded the YZR500 by the 2002 season and was originally developed with a engine...

in . Shinya Nakano

Shinya Nakano

is a retired Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Superbike rider. He is not related to the former Formula One racer Shinji Nakano.-Early years:...

was the team's only rider.

The team switched to Ducati motorcycles in using the previous season's Desmosedici GP3. Superbike World Champion Neil Hodgson

Neil Hodgson

Neil Stuart Hodgson is a former British motorcycle racer who won the 2000 British Superbike Championship, and the 2003 Superbike World Championship titles. Neil then went on to have a moderately successful 4 years in the American Superbike Championship, with a best 5th place championship finish...

and Superbike World Championship

Superbike World Championship

Superbike World Championship is the worldwide Superbike racing Championship. The championship was founded in . The Superbike World Championship season consists of a series of rounds held on permanent racing facilities...

runner-up Rubén Xaus

Rubén Xaus

Rubén Xaus is a motorcycle road racer. He currently competes in the Superbike World Championship. For 2009, he joins the new factory BMW team, his first ever campaign in WSBK on anything other than a Ducati. He was runner-up in this series in 2003, and spent the next two years in MotoGP with mixed...

joined the team. The team ran into financial difficulties mid-season and was not able to run a test program. The teams best result was a third place for Xaus.

Pramac Racing

Pramac Racing entered MotoGP in 2002

2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2002 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 54th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. The season consist of 16 races, which started with the Japanese Grand Prix on 7 April and ended with the Valencian Community Grand Prix on 3 November....

using the Honda NSR500

Honda NSR500

thumb|right|Shinichi Itoh, riding his Honda NSR500 in the Japanese Grand Prix 1993The Honda NSR500 is a race motorcycle from the Honda NSR series. It was created by HRC and debuted in 1984 for the Grand Prix motorcycle racing's 500 cc class. Honda won ten 500cc World Championships with the...

with Tetsuya Harada

Tetsuya Harada

is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was the 1993 FIM 250cc World Champion.- Early years :Harada won the Japanese 125cc Junior championship in 1988, and was runner-up to Tadayuki Okada in the All-Japan 250cc series in both 1990 and 1991, before taking the crown in 1992...

as a rider.

In 2003

2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2003 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 55th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.-Season summary:Defending champion Valentino Rossi won his 3rd MotoGP championship in 2003, winning 9 races, highlighted by his win at Phillip Island where he was given a 10 second penalty for...

the team used the Honda RC211V

Honda RC211V

The Honda RC211V was developed in 2001 by HRC to replace the Honda NSR500 because regulations for the World Championship motorcycle road racing class were changed drastically for the 2002 season. Two-stroke engines were as before limited to and 4 cylinders, but four-stroke engines were allowed...

with Makoto Tamada

Makoto Tamada

is a Japanese professional motorcycle racer. He is one of the few riders to win races in both MotoGP and Superbike World Championship. For he will ride for the Paul Bird Kawasaki Corse team in the Superbike World Championship.-Early years:After a junior career in minibikes, he won a regional 250cc...

it was the only Honda

Honda

is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

team to use Bridgestone

Bridgestone

The is a multinational rubber conglomerate founded in 1931 by in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese....

tyres. A podium in Brazil was the team's best result.

In 2004

2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2004 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 56th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.-Season summary:At the end of 2003, HRC and Valentino Rossi had parted ways, and HRC held Rossi to the letter of their contract which stipulated he could not ride another manufacturer's machine...

Pramac Racing ran alongside Pons Racing

Pons Racing

Pons Racing is an motorcycle and auto racing team based in Spain. The team was founded by former 250cc world champion Sito Pons in 1992. In motorcycle road racing world championships, Pons has fielded riders such as Alex Barros, Max Biaggi and Sete Gibernau...

under the name Camel Honda. Pramac ran Tamada using Bridgestone tyres while Pons ran Max Biaggi

Max Biaggi

Massimiliano "Max" Biaggi is an Italian motorcycle racer and winner of the 2010 World Superbike Championship. Throughout this racing career, he has won the 250cc World Championship four times, and finished as runner-up in both the 500cc and MotoGP championships...

using Michelin

Michelin

Michelin is a tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the two largest tyre manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands...

tyres. Tamada finished the season with 2 wins.

Pramac d'Antin

in 2005

2005 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

d’Antin MotoGP and Pramac Racing joined to form Pramac d'Antin. The team used the previous season's Desmosedici GP4 with Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Roberto Rolfo

Roberto 'Roby' Rolfo is a professional motorcycle road racer. He had his best season in 2003, when he finished in second place in the 250cc World Championship...

as a rider. The team used Dunlop

Dunlop Tyres

Dunlop Tyres is a British company owned 75% by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and 25% by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which bought the right to sell Dunlop-branded road tyres....

tyres and usually finished races near the back of the grid.

For 2006

2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2006 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 58th F.I.M. Road racing World Championship season.-Season summary:The 2006 MotoGP season was one of the closest battles and most thrilling in recent memory in which Honda's Nicky Hayden didn't claim the championship from Valentino Rossi until the...

the team was given use of the Desmosedici GP6 the same motorcycles the factory team

Ducati Corse

Ducati Corse S.r.l. is a subsidiary arm of Ducati that deals with the firm's involvement in motorcycle racing. It is directed by Claudio Domenicali and is based inside Bologna, in quartiere Borgo Panigale. More than one hundred people work in Ducati Corse...

was using. Alex Hofmann

Alex Hofmann

Alexander Hofmann is a retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who now works on German television coverage of the sport...

and José Luis Cardoso

José Luís Cardoso

Jose Luis Cardoso is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the 2006 season, he rode for the Pramac d'Antin Ducati squad, his second time with this team.-Early career:...

were the team's riders. The Dunlop

Dunlop Tyres

Dunlop Tyres is a British company owned 75% by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and 25% by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which bought the right to sell Dunlop-branded road tyres....

tyres the team used were not competitive and once again the team finished races near the back of the grid.

Prior to the start of the 2007 season

2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 59th F.I.M Road Racing World Championship season. The 2007 season was significant as it introduced a new regulation which specifies that competitors in the MotoGP class can use up to 800 cc motorcycles; between 2002 and 2006, competitors had...

Pramac and d’Antin reached an agreement that saw the d'Antin team becoming an integral part of the Pramac Group.

For the 2007 season

2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

the team used the new 800 cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7 and Bridgestone

Bridgestone

tyres. Brazilian

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Alex Barros

Alex Barros is a Brazilian motorcycle road racer. After a long career in MotoGP, for 2006 he moved to the Superbike World Championship...

joined the team alongside Alex Hofmann

Alex Hofmann

Alexander Hofmann is a retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who now works on German television coverage of the sport...

. Alex Barros

Alex Barros

Alex Barros is a Brazilian motorcycle road racer. After a long career in MotoGP, for 2006 he moved to the Superbike World Championship...

had a strong season finishing regularly in the top 10 and taking a podium finish at the Italian Grand Prix

2007 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2007 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 1 -June 3, 2007 at the Mugello Circuit.-Moto GP Classification:-250cc classification:-125cc Classification:-Notes:...

. Hofmann had a more average season and he injured his hand in practice at Laguna Seca. He was replaced at Laguna Seca by Chaz Davies

Chaz Davies

Chaz Davies , is a Welsh motorcycle racer. He is the 2011 World Supersport champion.-Early years:...

and by Iván Silva

Ivan Silva

Iván Silva is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is employed by Ducati as a test rider for the MotoGP championship and also competes in Spain's Formula Xtreme championship, with the D'Antin team....

at Brno

Masaryk Circuit

The Masaryk circuit or Masarykring, now referred to as the Brno Circuit, refers two Czech racing circuits located close to the city of Brno.The original circuit was made up of public roads, and at its longest measured nearly...

. He returned to racing at Misano

Misano World Circuit

The Misano World Circuit and before 2006 called Circuito Internazionale Santamonica, is an Italian racetrack located next to the town of Misano Adriatico in the frazione of Santamonica. Originally designed in 1969 as a length of , it hosted its first event in 1972...

but he was fired by the team following the Portuguese Grand Prix

2007 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2007 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2007 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 14 -September 16, 2007 at the Autódromo do Estoril located in Estoril, Portugal.-MotoGP classification:-250cc classification:...

, after pulling out of the race while in with a chance of scoring points, due to a lack of motivation. Chaz Davies

Chaz Davies

Chaz Davies , is a Welsh motorcycle racer. He is the 2011 World Supersport champion.-Early years:...

replaced Hoffmann for the 3 remaining rounds of the season.

In 2008 season

2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

the team continued using the Ducati Desmosedici GP8 and Bridgestone

Bridgestone

tyres. Sylvain Guintoli

Sylvain Guintoli

Sylvain Guintoli is a French professional motorcycle racer. He spent most of his career in the 250cc World Championship on private bikes, he made a single MotoGP start in 2002 during his run in the 250cc class, where he stayed until moving up to Moto GP in 2007.-Moto GP:In 2007, he raced in the...

and Toni Elías

Toni Elías

Antonio "Toni" Elias Justícia Antonio "Toni" Elias Justícia Antonio "Toni" Elias Justícia (born March 26, 1983 in Manresa, (Catalonia, Spain) is a professional motorcycle racer and inaugural champion of the Moto2 World Championship. He is the third member of the Elías family to compete in...

were the team's riders. The team was sponsored by Alice (Telecom Italia), and was renamed Alice Team.

Luis d'Antin resigned from the team during the German Grand Prix at Sachsenring

Sachsenring

The Sachsenring racing circuit is located in Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany. Among other events, it features the annual German motorcycle Grand Prix of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship.- History :...

Pramac Racing

For the 2009 season

2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 61st F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Valentino Rossi won his sixth MotoGP title, seventh in the top class and ninth title in total after getting the better of team-mate Jorge Lorenzo in a season-long battle...

the team continues, now under the name of Pramac Racing, using the Ducati Desmosedici GP9 and Bridgestone

Bridgestone

tyres with Mika Kallio

Mika Kallio

Mika Kallio is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in 2001 and was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" in 2002...

and Niccolò Canepa

Niccolò Canepa

Niccolò Canepa is an Italian motorcycle road racer competing in Moto2 for RSM Team Scot.He won the 2007 Superstock 1000 F.I.M. Cup championship on a Ducati, and spent 2008 as a tester of their MotoGP and World Superbike machines...

riding for the team.

On 19 August 2009 it was announced Aleix Espargaró

Aleix Espargaró

Aleix Espargaró is a Spanish motorcycle road racer.-Career:In 2006, Espagaró moved to the 250cc class of Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship racing mid-season, from the 125cc class...

will race for Pramac in Indianapolis and Misano, the seat having been filled by Michel Fabrizio

Michel Fabrizio

Michel Fabrizio is a professional motorcycle road racer. Since , he has been racing for Ducati Xerox Team alongside Noriyuki Haga on the new Ducati 1198 in the Superbike World Championship.-Early years:...

at Brno

Masaryk Circuit

. He will be replacing Mika Kallio who in turn replaced Casey Stoner

Casey Stoner

Casey Stoner is an Australian professional motorcycle racer. Born in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia and raised in Southport, Queensland, Stoner raced from a young age and moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a racing career...

at Ducati works team

Ducati Corse

.

2009 saw Niccolò Canepa

Niccolò Canepa

and Mika Kallio

Mika Kallio

ride for the team, with Michel Fabrizio

Michel Fabrizio

and Aleix Espargaró

Aleix Espargaró

Aleix Espargaró is a Spanish motorcycle road racer.-Career:In 2006, Espagaró moved to the 250cc class of Grand Prix Motorcycle World Championship racing mid-season, from the 125cc class...

also running races while Kallio stood in for Casey Stoner

Casey Stoner

at the factory Ducati

Ducati Corse

team. Kallio and Espargaró raced for Pramac for the 2010 season

2010 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

The 2010 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 62nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. It was the first season for the new Moto2 class....

.

Randy de Puniet

Randy de Puniet

Randy de Puniet is a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is currently racing for the Pramac Ducati team in MotoGP, having raced in this class regularly since 2006...

will race for Pramac in , partnering Loris Capirossi

Loris Capirossi

Loris Capirossi is a retired Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who competed between and...

.

Following Loris Capirossi

Loris Capirossi

Loris Capirossi is a retired Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who competed between and...

's retirement at the end of the 2011 season, Héctor Barberá

Héctor Barberá

Héctor Barberá Vall is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer competing in the MotoGP class aboard an Aspar Racing Team Ducati....

has been confirmed for 2012.

External links

pramacracing.com Official website

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