August 14th 2024
Ducati signs multi-year agreement with VR46 Racing to serve as factory-supported team in MotoGP starting in 2025
The VR46 Racing Team will become Ducati’s factory-supported team in MotoGP starting in 2025. This partnership, established under a multi-year agreement, will see the team fielding an official Desmosedici GP motorcycle and receiving technical and sporting support from Ducati’s headquarters in Borgo Panigale, Italy.
Ducati is an Italian motorcycle manufacturing company, directly owned by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini,
The VR46 Racing Team, founded in Tavullia in 2014 by nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi, entered MotoGP in 2021 after success in the Moto2 and Moto3 categories.
Luigi Dall’Igna, Ducati Corse general manager, said, “From day one, the VR46 Racing Team has shown its ability to work in perfect harmony with Ducati, and in recent years we achieved important results together. We are happy, therefore, to be able to fortify our relationship further, providing the Pesaro-based team with full factory support starting next season. I am sure that together we can achieve other significant goals.”
Alessio Salucci, team director for VR46 Racing Team, added, “I can only be proud to announce that from next year the VR46 Racing Team will be the Ducati factory supported team in MotoGP. We will be on track with an official bike and a GP24.
Alessio Salucci, team director for VR46 Racing Team, added, “I can only be proud to announce that from next year the VR46 Racing Team will be the Ducati factory supported team in MotoGP. We will be on track with an official bike and a GP24.
“If they had said it a few years ago, I wouldn’t have believed it. It’s a truly significant moment for the entire group. Having achieved this result in just three years, with a young team, with so many guys with us from Moto3, is something extraordinary.”
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