Today, the Gresini Racing Team announced that their immediate future lies with Ducati.
The Italian team, now run by Nadia Padovani, the widow of team’s founder Fausto Gresini, will lease Ducati Desmosedici machines from the Bologna factory for the 2022 and 2023 MotoGP seasons.
Another seat in the MotoGP is spoken for in the 2021 Silly Season, as Remy Gardner will be making the step from the Moto2 paddock into the premier class.
Signing with KTM, Gardner will find his rookie season inside the satellite Tech3 squad, though it remains to be seen which of the current Tech3 riders will be making way for the young Australian.
2021 is proving to be a more normal year than last year in many different ways.
One of those is the fact that in addition to racing at the more traditional MotoGP tracks, MotoGP’s Silly Season is kicking off pretty much on schedule.
Mugello is traditionally the point in the season at which teams and factories start to think about next year, and 2021 is no exception.