As we mentioned yesterday on Twitter, Hector Barberà is the new Pramac Racing rider for the 2012 MotoGP season. The Spanish rider, after two MotoGP season with another team but always with a Ducati, will have the opportunity to continue to work with the Italian manufacturer with Pramac Racing.
Paolo Campinoti – Pramac Racing Team Principal
“We are glad to announce that Hector Barberà will be with us for the 2012 MotoGP season. We are confident that his experience riding a Ducati in the last two years may take him to achieve an even better season with us. In the year of racing that has just ended, despite a bad injury, he finished as the third best Ducati rider and this bodes well. I would to take this opportunity also to thanks our 2011 riders, De Puniet and Loris Capirossi, for the season lived with us. We wish them a future full of happiness on and off the track.”
Hector Barberà – Pramac Racing rider
“This will be my third year riding a Ducati and I want to thank the Pramac Racing Team and Paolo Campinoti who have given me this opportunity. In the last two seasons I have not conquered the results I wanted and I hope that now, after the experience I gained, I can get better results. Both I and Pramac Racing have high goals. I am Coming from one of the hardest moments of my career and I want a change. The Ducati is working hard, this was a difficult year but I am sure that with tomorrow and wednesday tests and especially with the winter break, where they will have time to work, they will be able to give us a very competitive bike at the beginning of next season.”
Hector Barbera Statistics:
Season – Category – Final position
2011 – MotoGP – 11th
2010 – MotoGP – 12th
2009 – 250cc – 2nd
2008 – 250cc – 6th
2007 – 250cc – 5th
2006 – 250cc – 7th
2005 – 250cc – 9th
2004 – 125cc – 2nd
2003 – 125cc – 3rd
2002 – 125cc – 14th
GP Starts – 156
Wins in 250cc – 4
Poles in 250cc – 8
Podiums in 250cc – 20
Wins in 125cc – 6
Poles in 125cc – 1
Podiums 125cc – 12
