Aruba.it confirms its "Racing" soul and also links its name to Ducati as the title sponsor of the official team in the Motocross World Championship - MXGP 2025, further strengthening the bond with the Borgo Panigale company with which it will be present on the track next year both in the Superbike World Championship, with the Ducati Panigale V4Rs of the Aruba.it Racing - Ducati team, and in the FIM MotoE World Championship, with the Ducati V21Ls of the Aruba Cloud team.
This debut in the Motocross World Championship represents a historic milestone for Ducati, which, after winning the 2024 MX1 Italian Championship with Alessandro Lupino riding the new Desmo450 MX and taking part in two rounds of the MXGP World Championship with Antonio Cairoli (in Holland) and Lupino himself (in Spain), will participate for the first time this year in the entire MXGP with Swiss rider Jeremy Seewer and young Italian talent Mattia Guadagnini. The 2025 championship will kick off next March 2 in Cordoba, Argentina, and conclude on September 21 in Darwin, Australia.
Twenty events will take place across four continents (South America, Europe, Asia, Australia) with guaranteed television coverage in 180 countries for a predicted audience of more than 780 million viewers. Added to that are more than 5 million fans connected through MXGP's social pages and more than 700,000 track attendances in the 2024 season.
The presentation of the Aruba.it - Ducati Factory MX Team will be held on Tuesday, February 11 at the Auditorium inside Aruba's Data Center Campus in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo, Italy) and will be part of a major event celebrating Aruba.it's commitment to the racing world. In addition to the Ducati Desmo450 MX of Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini, on the stage of the Aruba Auditorium will, in fact, also be unveiled the liveries of the Ducati Panigale V4 of Alvaro Bautista and Nicolò Bulega who will participate with the Aruba.it Racing - Ducati team in the Superbike World Championship, and the Ducati V21Ls of Alessandro Zaccone and Luca Bernardi who will defend the colors of team Aruba Cloud in the MotoE World Championship.
"The strong partnership between Aruba and Ducati is based on the many values that unite our companies and, above all, on the love for great challenges," said Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba. "We have been racing on asphalt for over ten years, managing the official WorldSBK team, and we are in the second season of our MotoE team. We are therefore excited to embark on this new adventure in the world of Motocross - MXGP 2025. This project represents a new world stage for us, giving us another opportunity to communicate our common passion for technology, performance and reliability. The debut season will certainly not be easy, but I have great confidence in the abilities of the riders, the entire team, and everyone who works at Borgo Panigale. Go Ducati!"
"Ducati has decided to take on a new challenge in the off-road world by developing a new model, the Desmo450 MX, which is the only motocross bike in the world to use the desmodromic valve recall system," concluded Paolo Ciabatti, General Manager of Ducati Corse Off-Road. "In 2024 we made our racing debut in the Italian Championship, winning the MX1 title with Alessandro Lupino, and this year we are looking forward to another more important commitment and opportunity, this time with the Motocross World Championship - MXGP. For this reason we are thrilled that Aruba wanted to join forces with us for this exciting new sporting adventure. Together with Jeremy and Mattia, we are committed to repaying the trust of our title sponsor."