Luca Marini, the half-brother of Valentino Rossi, will exchange Marc Marquez on the Honda MotoGP workforce subsequent season, the Japanese producer introduced Monday.
“Honda Racing Company are happy to announce the signing of Luca Marini for the 2024 and 2025 MotoGP World Championship seasons,” Honda mentioned in an announcement.
Italian Marini, 26, has been racing for Rossi’s VR46 Ducati workforce since 2021. He was runner-up within the Moto2 championship in 2020.
He’ll accomplice with Spaniard Joan Mir, the 2020 MotoGP champion with Suzuki, on the Repsol Honda workforce.
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Marquez, a six-time MotoGP world champion, has joined his brother Alex at Ducati satellite tv for pc workforce Gresini Racing.
9-time world champion Rossi received three of his seven titles within the prime class with Honda from 2001 to 2003. It was introduced Monday that Rossi will do a full season with BMW within the new LMGT3 class of the FIA world endurance championship, together with competing within the Le Mans 24 Hours for the primary time.
The LMGT3 class replaces the LMGTE class that has been on the grid since 2012.