Motorcycling-Gresini announce Ducati MotoGP partnership from 2022
17/06/2021 21:22
June 17 (Reuters) - The Gresini MotoGP team announced on
Thursday a deal to use Ducati bikes for the next two seasons
with an all-Italian line-up of Enea Bastianini and Fabio di
Giannantonio.
Gresini, currently partnering Aprilia, signed a contract
with MotoGP rights holders Dorna last year to revert to being an
independent outfit.
The team are now owned and run by Nadia Padovani after the
death of her husband and team founder Fausto Gresini in
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"We’re incredibly happy to have reached this agreement with
Gresini Racing for the next two MotoGP seasons," said Ducati
Corse general manager Gigi Dall'Igna in a statement ahead of
this weekend's German Grand Prix.
"We had laid down the foundations of a possible agreement
with Fausto already at the end of last year and we would like to
thank, from the bottom of our hearts, his family for carrying
this project forward with us."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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