Although the agreement between the Ducati factory and the Pertamina VR46 team is a fact, we had to wait until the return from vacation to make it official that the Tavullia team owned by Valentino Rossi will become a Ducati team from 2025. Borgo Panigale factory support taking up the baton of Prima Pramac who abandoned the Ducati ship to ride Yamaha.
In just three years in the top category, Borgo Panigale recognizes the work of the squad led by Rossi’s right-hand man, Uccio Salucci, and Madrid’s Pablo Nieto, with three victories in 2023 and an important contribution, as a team in points ., to win the Constructors’ Championship last year
In the fluorine yellow box there will be an official motorcycle in 2025, the same car of Bagnaia and Marc Márquez, which should be for Fabio di Giannantonio as soon as it becomes official, and a Ducati Desmosedici GP24, for Franco Morbidelli, with using new technical equipment provided by Ducati.
“I can only be proud to announce that starting next year the Pertamina Enduro 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 said it a few years ago , I do not believe that this is a very important moment for the whole group: to achieve the result in just three years, with a young team, with so many Moto3s with us, is something extraordinary,” commented Alessio. Salucci, Team Director of the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team
“We have demanding and challenging years ahead, but we are eager to test ourselves and try to achieve ambitious results,” he concluded.
Luigi Dall’Igna, General Director of Ducati Corse, also wants to highlight that “from the first day, the VR46 Racing team has shown the ability to work in perfect harmony with Ducati and, in recent years, we have achieved important results together. We are therefore happy to further strengthen our relationship, giving full support to the factory in Pesaro starting next season to all the people working with the team with great passion and dedication.”
Source: La Verdad
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