GRAND PRIX racing veteran Loris Capirossi will make a return to Ducati in next year’s MotoGP world championship, riding for the satellite Pramac squad.
Having endured a disappointing three years with the Rizla Suzuki squad, where the former World Champion secured just one podium placing, Capirossi now heads back to the Italian brand with which he last raced for back in 2007.
Following the announcement, the triple world champion said: “This return on a Ducati bike makes 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 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 a 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."
Suzuki will field a one-rider team in 2011, retaining Alvaro Bautista in the downsized squad.
It's expected French rider Randy de Puniet will join Capirossi in the all-new Pramac set-up.
