VR46 team boss Pablo Nieto says his outfit is not under mor💙e pressure to perform following Pramac’s 2024 title win because it represents MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi.

Pramac made history last year when it won the MotoGP world title with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin, mak𒅌ing it the first satellite team to do so in the modern era.

Forging close ties wit✅h Ducati in recent years, Pramac had machine parity with the factory squad as well as full technical support.

That has passed to the VR46 team this year, with Fabio D🀅i Giannantonio’s side of the garage running a📖 works-spec GP25.

VR46 has won gr🌸ands prix already in its short time on the grid as a Ducati satellite partner, though hasn’t done so since 2023.

Given the support most satellite teams receive now from thꦏeir factories coupled with Pramac’s title win last year, expectations h🌠ave been raised for independent squads.

But Nieto doesn’t feel this has passed to the VR46 team, noting that its pressure has been there since its Moto3 days because of its association wi𓆉th nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi.

“No, I think the pressure we have we’ve had since we were in Moto3,” Nieto told mahbx.com in an exclusive 🍨interview when asked if Pramac’s 2024 campaign had raised expectations for his team.

“We are VR46, so in the e🦹nd when you are taking care about that name the pressure we already have it.

“So,😼 that’s very important. For us, if you don’t have any pressure, that means that nobওody cares about you.

“So, it’s important to get that kind of pressure because it means that a lot of people are caring about us, are watching us, are looking at what we are doing and we ꦆare here to have that responsibility to do som♏ething important.”

VR46 has enjoyed a solid start to the 2025 campaign, with it third in the teams’ standings after seven ⛎rounds having scored five podiums across grands prix and sprints.

Franco Morbidelli is fourth in th🅷e rider points, with Fabio Di Giannantonio 10 points adrift in sixth.

Nieto is pleased with what he has ꦐseen so far, but believes the team is “missing” something to be a regular podium con🦄tender.

“It was not so bad,” he added.

“In the end, we are fourt🔯h and sixth in the championship. So, we are happy but always you wan🌞t more and more.

“That’s normal. In🐲 the end, I think we have the best bike that we’ve had in MotoGP.

“We have big support from Ducati, so that’s also very important for us. And we have to work a little bit, not better - bec♓ause we are worki𒐪ng very good.

“But we ha♚ve t✅o try something a little bit that we are missing to fight for the podium in every race.

“I think we have the potential to do it. I thin♑k you have to put everything together.

“Sometimes you are missing some luck or we are making some mistakes, or some crashes. But♓ this is the🐼 sport.”