The MGM Bonovo Ducati staff shouldn’t be a brand new outfit to WorldSBK by 2025, however its modifications in comparison with earlier seasons have seen it downsize to 1 bike, ridden by Scott Redding, and even that would fail to make the top of the season.
Till the top of final season, the MGM staff ran BMW equipment in shut collaboration with the Bavarian manufacturing unit.
Nonetheless, when Bonovo’s Jurgen Roder introduced that he would retire from staff possession on the finish of final 12 months, the staff possession was taken on by Michael Galinski (MGM stands for ‘Michael Galinski Motorsport’), with Bonovo staying on as a sponsor.
There have been good early indicators for the brand new outfit, Redding, and the staff’s new equipment from Ducati, because the British rider was capable of end within the top-six in all three races on the Australian Spherical in February.
However, since then, Redding has solely been within the top-six as soon as (Assen Superpole Race), and has solely two different top-10s in that point.
Now, in line with Speedweek, the MGM staff may very well be off the grid already on the Emilia-Romagna Spherical at Misano in June on account of monetary difficulties.
The German publication experiences that MGM’s 2025 season has been funded by a mix of the staff’s personal funding from its proprietor, Michael Galinski; sponsorship from Bonovo, who had been purported to cowl two-thirds of the funds for this season; and by Redding himself, who has reportedly already offered 72 per cent of his monetary obligation for the season regardless of solely 5 of 12 rounds having been run in 2025.
Speedweek experiences that monetary difficulties started to be encountered by MGM in April, and that Galinski spoke with WorldSBK Government Director Gregorio Lavilla in Assen to debate the results of a doable withdrawal from the championship.
Moreover, the German staff reportedly has money owed with Ducati of round €280,000 (£235,000), and Speedweek says that Ducati has prolonged the deadline for this by 60 days.
Additional, it says that round €800,000 (£670,000) could be wanted to avoid wasting the staff for this season, ought to an exterior purchaser want to take management of it – a sponsor to fill MGM’s present monetary gap having not been discovered.
