Sbk, Michael Ruben Rinaldi will change teams
The words of Michael Ruben Rinaldi
Michael Ruben Rinaldi now knows who he will race for in the 2024 season of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship.
The Rimini native will move – from the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team to the Independent Motocorsa Racing team in which he will takeà the place of Axel Bassani who in turn moves to the official Kawasaki team.
Rinaldi in WorldSBK has always raced with Ducati. In 2018 è he took to the track with the’Aruba.it Racing – Junior Team finishing 14th° in the standings and with a sixth place in Brno as his best result. The’following year è moved to the Barni Ducati team and in 2020 to the GoEleven Team, with which at MotorLand Aragon he won his first victories and podiums. This allowed him to land in the official Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, first alongside Scott Redding and then Alvaro Bautista. Between 2021 and 2023 with the team, he scored four wins and 20 podiums in addition to making a valuable contribution to winning the World Team titles in 2022 and 2023 and also the Constructors titles. For his seventh year in WorldSBK, Rinaldi will remain on the Panigale V4 R but with the Motocorsa Racing team.
Rinaldi spoke about this new challenge: “2024 starts today. A new team, new people and one big goal… so Team Motocorsa è the right choice. It would be complex and undoubtedly reductive to explain in soì few lines all the reasons why Team Motocorsa and I chose each other and together we decided to undertake this great challenge for the 2024 season. Therefore, I would like to use only two words: PASSION and AMBITION. Key words that have been, since the first meeting with Lorenzo Mauri, the essence of a clear message that he wanted to convey by wanting me at the center of a solid and competitive project to stay and aim, with a clear mind, even higher. A vision that perfectly matches what I am looking for… a team that has the same passion for the sport as I do, the ambition, desire and spirit of sacrifice that it takes to achieve great results. For this reason, I am very happy and I can't wait to start working with the team to create a great foundation at the technical level and a positive environment inside the box that can be productive and stimulating. I want to thank Lorenzo Mauri and Team Motocorsa, Vittorino Mesaroli and Mesaroli Spa, Ducati and all the sponsors who have made this project possible".
