Franco Morbidelli says representing Ducati and Valentino Rossi in MotoGP 2025 has offered “an injection of pleasure” to the VR46 staff after a powerful begin to the marketing campaign.
The VR46 squad owned by MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi presently sits third within the groups’ standings after the primary six rounds of 2025, whereas its riders spherical out the highest 5 within the championship.
Franco Morbidelli has loved a return to type on the year-old Ducati on the VR46 squad, ending a podium drought relationship again to 2021 in Argentina and securing a double rostrum in Qatar.
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It has put him as much as fourth within the standings on 86 factors, with factory-supported team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio – who additionally had a podium this season – 11 factors behind him.
Reflecting on the season up to now, Morbidelli advised MotoGP’s official web site: “I’m in a really, very good second for me and the staff.
“We’re having fun with going to the races. We’re having fun with working collectively and that is mirrored within the outcomes, for positive.
“I aways have a fantastic end result goal round me. That’s good, I settle for it.
“However for positive there have been elements of my profession that I wasn’t capable of match the goals that everybody placed on me.
“However fortunately, I at all times was capable of recuperate and undoubtedly the assistance of the folks round me and the staff on the whole was essential.
“We are able to say that I’m again having nice velocity and nice outcomes on observe.
“And we’re again on having this good rhythm.
“We’re very excited to go to the races and we’re very excited due to the efficiency, however primarily for the nice ardour the entire staff has for the game and the nice attachment we’ve for our colors, which is for positive purple Ducati but in addition yellow.
“That’s a fantastic, nice half, representing such a fantastic staff and such a fantastic character of the game on the whole.
“It provides a fantastic injection of pleasure to all people once they go to the observe and the race.”
Morbidelli comes into this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone trying to bounce again from a tough French Grand Prix, wherein was fifteenth in moist circumstances.
