Press Release | February 11, 2025
Aruba.it will be the title sponsor of the official Ducati team for the 2025 FIM Motocross World Championship. The team will debut at the MXGP season opener in Cordoba, Argentina, on March 2.
This is a press release from Ducati…
Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy), January 15, 2025 – Ducati and Aruba.it further strengthen their partnership. Aruba.it will in fact be the title sponsor of the official Ducati team in the Motocross World Championship—MXGP 2025 confirming its 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 V4R of the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, and in the FIM MotoE World Championship, with the Ducati V21L of the Aruba Cloud team.
The Aruba.it – Ducati Factory MX Team reveals their look for 2025.
This debut in the Motocross World Championship represents a historic milestone for Ducati which, after having won the 2024 Italian MX1 Championship on its debut 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), for the first time this year he will participate in the entire MXGP with the Swiss rider Jeremy Seewer and the young Italian talent Mattia Guadagnini. The 2025 championship will start on March 2nd in Cordoba, Argentina and will end on September 21st in Darwin, Australia.Twenty events will take place across four continents (South America, Europe, Asia, Australia) with guaranteed television coverage in 180 countries and a predicted audience of over 780 million viewers. Added to these are more than 5 million fans connected through the MXGP social pages and over 700 thousand attendances on the tracks, as reported during the 2024 season.
The team’s official MXGP livery.
The presentation of the Aruba.it – Ducati Factory MX Team will be held on Tuesday February 11 at the Auditorium inside the Aruba Data Centre Campus in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) and will be part of a major event that will celebrate Aruba.it’s commitment to the racing world. The event will also showcase the liveries of the motorcycles competing in other championships alongside the Ducati Desmo450 MX of Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini for the MXGP team. This includes the Ducati Panigale V4s ridden by Alvaro Bautista and Nicolò Bulega for the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team in the Superbike World Championship, and the Ducati V21Ls piloted by Alessandro Zaccone and Luca Bernardi who will represent the Aruba Cloud team in the MotoE World Championship.
Ducati’s World SBK team.
“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 motorcross 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 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.”
“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 together 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!”
UPDATE FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The first, historic season in the Motocross World Championship – MXGP for the Aruba.it – Ducati Factory MX Team opened on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 11 at the Aruba Global Cloud Data Center Auditorium in Bergamo (Italy), with the official unveil of the liveries of the Desmo450 MX with which the two official riders Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini will participate in the Motocross World Championship 2025.
Ducati will field two riders for the full MXGP calendar.
The presentation of the Aruba.it – Ducati Factory MX Team took place within a large event that celebrated the commitment of Aruba.it in the racing world. In addition to the Ducati Desmo450 MX of Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini, on the stage of the Auditorium Aruba were in fact also unveiled the liveries of the Ducati Panigale V4 R of Alvaro Bautista and Nicolò Bulega who will participate with the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Team in the Superbike World Championship, and the Ducati V21L of Alessandro Zaccone and Luca Bernardi who will defend the colors of the team Aruba Cloud in the MotoE World Championship.
Seewer, an MXGP veteran, leads the team into 2025.
Jeremy Seewer #91: “I am really excited to start this adventure with Ducati. The first impact with the people in the team was immediately very positive. We are working hard ahead of the debut in Argentina and we want to get the maximum potential out of our Desmo450 MX. The goal we have set for ourselves is to get confident quickly and to be fighting for the podium fairly early in the 2025 season.”
Guadagnini, an Italian native, joins the team for the new year.
Mattia Guadagnini #101: “It is truly a great honour for me to be part of this project and to be one of the two riders with whom Ducati will participate in its first Motocross World Championship. From the very first days that I breathed the air of the Company I understood its greatness and I am sure that this season will be remembered in the future. I am pumped up to start this adventure, convinced that we will find a way to improve the bike and I expect to be able to achieve good results already this year.”
Claudio Domenicali (CEO Ducati Motor Holding): “This is a special day for Ducati and Aruba, two Italian companies of excellence that for over ten years have enjoyed a successful partnership characterized by a common passion for great challenges. With the presentation of the Aruba Racing season this collaboration is not only renewed, but raises the bar even higher, adding to the management of the Ducati official team in WorldSBK and the MotoE team also the new role of Title Sponsor for Ducati’s first historic adventure in the MXGP World Championship. We are certain that from all three of these experiences we will be able to obtain great satisfaction, relying on a consolidated working method with the people of Aruba, starting from CEO Stefano Cecconi, which focuses on technology, development and innovation with the ultimate goal of continuous growth”.
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